Ability Quote by Clay Shirky

You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline…

— Daniel Levitin

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

“So we have scales that allow us to divide up people into people who multitask all the time and people who rarely do, and…

— Cal Newport

“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of…

— Susan Cain

“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

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a…

— Karen Finerman

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

— Marilyn vos Savant

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

— Joss Whedon

“We often think that combining tasks will save us time, but scientific evidence shows that it has the opposite effect. Even those who claim…

— Hector Garcia Puigcerver

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

— James Surowiecki

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like…

— Joss Whedon

“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of…

— Susan Cain