“SMS made everything negotiable: hour by hour, minute by minute. There was no such thing as a firm plan or a final schedule.”

“Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of our brains.”