A Quote by James Surowiecki

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

James Surowiecki

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James Surowiecki
American - Journalist
Born: April 30, 1967

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

Iain Banks

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

Len Goodman

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

Daniel Levitin

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

John Dewey

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 little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

Karen Finerman

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

James Surowiecki

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

Robert Barron

I think if I was fooling the people, over 35 years of it now, I would've been caught already fooling them.

Benny Hinn

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

J. Anthony Lukas

Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.

Ellen Ullman

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

Christopher Meloni

I think we're fooling ourselves if we think that regulators are going to be able to outsmart the bankers. So, the task of designing regulatory reform is trying to make more or less foolproof regulation and that's one of the advantages of the systemic category.

Robert F. Engle

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

Joss Whedon

To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.

William Gibson

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

Henry Charles Carey

We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

Jessica Zafra

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