Mellody Hobson Quotes

Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.

If you think about Cisco's offerings like TelePresence, where it's an immersive way to communicate for businesses to connect and have conversations in a real-time immersive mode, how that will change health care, how that'll change retail business, how that'll change actually travel. There's lots of changes that we will see going forward.

Believe it or not, joining a video conference call from home doesn't always have to make you feel like an idiot.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

Every day at Skype, I am able to connect with employees from around the world and engage with them on a level that just is not possible through a conference call or email.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

I think because Skype is becoming so much more prevalent, and you're looking at someone else on a screen, it's going to work its way into movies and TV shows in all different ways, which I think is really cool.

Twitter seems just to be constant updates; it seems to me as promotional tool where people talk themselves up, and I don't want it to take over what I'm doing.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

My attention span is very short.

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.

I hope that with video conferencing like Zoom everyone can spend time with family.

When there are four or five tables going on it is hard to keep your concentration.

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

I don't usually Skype. I've used it once, but my boyfriend had to leave instructions: 'This is how you Skype me.' We do it for the business, of course - we have the site and trade online - but, personally, I'm not passionate about it.

I think many businesses will allow their employees to work from home. The main challenge here is how to make sure Zoom will give a better and safer experience to users than compared to that in an office environment.

I never thought that overnight the whole world would be using Zoom. Unfortunately, we did not prepare well, mentally and strategy-wise.

My attention span was not great.

I've got no attention span.