Matthew Walker Quotes

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

If you're not careful, the Internet will gobble up your entire life.

I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.

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

After my family leaves in the morning, I'll make my first coffee of the day and then I head upstairs to go to work. At least, that's my plan. I'm not going to check email. I'm not going on Facebook, or sneaking a glimpse at my Instagram feed. No. I'm not going to down that road. But with multiple devices, by the time I get upstairs [to my study] I may well have heard my iPhone ding and - it's Pavlovian.

Twitter's probably my bad habit.

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 procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction.

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

People don't just stop playing Facebook games. They divorce them.

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 learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

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.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

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

It's bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I'm drinking a latte right now? It's so indulgent.

Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

The kids are fixing their eyes on social media, and the stories they're looking at may not be the most important things. I'm guilty of that, too. Do you want to look at Instagram or the news? It's a difficult, and weird, situation.