Multitasking Quotations

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.