Aubrey Plaza Quotes

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

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.

Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.

I have no interest in Twitter or Twotter or Twatter. It would never occur to me to use it. People who Tweet during programmes are always asking, 'What happened then?' If you're bloody Twittering away all the time, you miss what is actually going on.

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

I'm not suggesting that the entire nation can't be successful, but there's something to it when you have 150 cable channels and the Internet at your fingertips and video games and all kinds of ADD-addled devices like my iPhone and your BlackBerry and things that keep us busy.

People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call now is 'ADD,' like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping or... I'm not there. I drift off. I get crazy, so I don't even bother.

I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.

Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

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

I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

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

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.