Marco Arment Quotes

There are too many distractions on a computer.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a distraction. It is definitely a blessing. What blessing isn't a distraction, though?

I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.

Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

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

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

It amazes me how much noise there is on a set while people are trying to focus and do their jobs. But there's some kind of order within that chaos.

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.

I think that we get so distracted with our smartphones... It takes your body and your brain time to switch between tasks. If we can focus on what we're doing, we'll be more productive at that task.

I generally leave the television on while I'm working.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

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

I'm from the ADHD generation, to be honest - I genuinely was on Ritalin in middle school - so I'm most comfortable with a hundred things going on at once. It's deadlines that get pesky.