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Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

“Switching from task to task is a large mental burden because you are essentially stopping and starting from zero numerous times throughout the day.…

— Patrick King

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

— Susan Cain

“Multi-tasking is NOT an option”

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

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.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Companies pay too much attention to the cost of doing something. They should worry more about the cost of not doing it.

— Philip Kotler

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.

— Steven Sinofsky

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

— Marilyn vos Savant

“One of the significant discoveries of cognitive psychologists in recent decades is that switching from one task to another is effortful, especially under time…

— Daniel Kahneman

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

— Peter Drucker

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

— Daniel Levitin

“Those who consistently attempt multitasking find it harder to ignore irrelevant information and take longer moving between tasks—in other words, for all their frantic…

— Margaret Heffernan