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

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

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

“Online chatting, on the other hand, has been linked to symptoms of loneliness, confusion, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and addiction.”

“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.”