Quote by Cal Newport

“We instead find ourselves in distracting open offices where inboxes cannot be neglected and meetings are incessant—a setting where colleagues would rather you respond…

— Cal Newport

People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.

— Tim Ferriss

“people have a really bad habit of coming in and checking e-mail first thing in the morning. And for many people, the morning is…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required…

— Alan Lightman

One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message…

— Jacqueline Leo

People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.

— Justin Rosenstein

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the…

— Bill Gates

I text faster and respond to a inbox msg depending on how important the person is to me

— Kevin McCarty

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus…

— Noreena Hertz

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

— Chris Hardwick

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication…

— Marilyn vos Savant

“Try creating an interruption-free zone during the day—turn off your e-mail, phone, IM program, or BlackBerry—and see whether you get more done.”

— John Medina