“Giving up one activity does not guarantee you will take up a more worthy substitute.”

“The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically we connect, one to another, the more disconnected our relationships become.”

“Parenting in the age of mobile communication really does allow us to be there for our kids in a way never before possible.”

“The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.”

“No one's brain is different enough to make constant interruptions, distractions, and task-switching an optimal environment in which to function. No one's.”

“The mind boggles, in other words, but the brain toggles- sometimes quite rapidly, from one task to the next.”

“Have you ever considered whether Perth's 'dullness' may have inspired you rather than inhibited you?”