Activity Quote by Steve McConnell

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is…

— Marco Arment

“...the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity...What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between…

— Susan Cain

There are too many distractions on a computer.

— Charles Forsman

“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

Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute…

— Alvin Toffler

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

We've become more and more interrupt-driven. If you have six tasks to do in an hour, you can't just take 60 minutes and divide…

— Paul Saffo

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty…

— Fred Brooks

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a…

— Joel Spolsky

Interruptions are the spice of life.

— Don Herold

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

— Douglas B. Reeves

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

— Brendan Behan