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“Continually seeking novel stimuli makes us feel more productive—after all, we’re doing more in each moment. But again, just because we’re busier doesn’t mean we’re getting more accomplished.”
― Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus: How to Manage Your Attention in a World of Distraction

“Yet his experiments led him to a contradictory conclusion. Programming did not teach people how to think—he realized he knew too many narrow-minded programmers for that to be so, now that he considered the question in depth. The truth was the converse: Every individual’s ingrained way of thinking affected how he or she programmed.”
― Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

“how important it is to choose what you consume and pay attention to: just as you are what you eat, when it comes to the information you consume, you are what you choose to focus on. Consuming valuable material in general makes scatterfocus sessions even more productive.”
― Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus: How to Manage Your Attention in a World of Distraction

“Taylor believed that the unique success of the 914 copier had inculcated Xerox management with the doctrine that good things derived only from hardware. He was determined to show them that this idea was obsolete. As PARC envisioned the office of the future, a single piece of equipment could be made to serve multiple uses simply by changes in its software.”
― Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age