“Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
Misattributed as Maxim 7, p. 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=GKFGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=%22To+do+two+things+at+once+is+to+do+neither.%22 <br class="br">Variant of: <br class="br">Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit <br class="br">Who chases two rabbits catches neither. <br class="br">A Dictionary of Quotations in most frequent Use, David Evans Macdonnel, 1797, quoted in The Monthly Review, 1798, p. 467 https://books.google.com/books?id=KYhPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA467&dq=%22duos+qui+sequitur+lepores+neutrum+capit%22 <br class="br">Apparently of medieval or modern origin, not found in antiquity. <br class="br">Misattributed
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