Attention span Quote by Sally Hogshead

Getting new information through Web-surfing almost always feels more rewarding than having to generate new information in the work that is in front of…

— Daniel Levitin

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities…

— Fareed Zakaria

“I usually get distracted when I’m on the internet. I open one or two tabs to look something up for school but it turns…

— Abdullah Abu Snaineh

I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and…

— Robin Sloan

I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information…

— Scott Adams

Web searching and cellphone use both flourish in the wee hours. Before the dawn of the web, I would stay up watching television. But…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

— Kevin Spacey

“The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory, but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory,…

— Nicholas Carr

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are…

— Clifford Stoll

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical…

— Andrew Weil

“social media can be addictive. A quick five minutes on Facebook can easily turn into an hour, as many of us can attest to.…

— S.J. Scott