George Packer Quotes

I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.

I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

The Internet is a big distraction.

If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

I'm one of those people who doesn't understand how it was that I went to bed at 3 o'clock in the morning or what I was doing. Like, I looked at 'Bon Appetit' magazine for three hours for things I'm never going to cook. Or I'm just on Pinterest for no logical reason.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

I'm an Internet junkie.

There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

It is easier to waste time on bureaucratic reorganization than it is to accomplish anything concrete.

Our competition has always been anything that is wasting your time when you're bored at work. In a broad sense. We want people to come to reddit to find out what's new and interesting online, but we realize they usually do this when they should be working or perhaps when they start or when they end their day. And that's always been the goal.

When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours.

It is true that a lot of people are easily distracted online. As a result, too many of us have given up on digital audiences for ambitious work, and this is a mistake.