Document Management Quotes

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

The problem in D.C. is that everything is on paper, and it's theoretical.

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.

My first job was at the BBC but was really dull. I was working in the BBC's reference department, where I did a lot of filing. I had always been interested in films and theatre, so I thought that getting a job at the BBC would be a good idea, but the job was really mundane.

Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited and reedited until no one knows which version is current. Urgent messages drowning in forwards and cc's and spam.

As far as any personal records, if I get 'em, fine, and if I don't, fine.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

Documenting and recording paperwork, managing services like passport renewals, and processing patent applications are practices that could all be dramatically improved with robotic automation.

I used to sign vouchers and sign-out sheets with 'Alexandra Dee.'

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.

Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

Develop a good filing system.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.

You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse.

The decision makers at HUD appear to have carried the reduction of paperwork to the extreme. There are practically no records.

I have never met a document I don't like.