Paperless Office Quotes

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.

When I was first elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000, we had to carry a big binder filled with hundreds of pages to every meeting. By 2004, the State Board had gone paperless. We even persuaded the less-tech-savvy members to use laptops to pull up their information during meetings.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

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

I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

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

In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

I still like the physicality of papers.

I can live without a computer. My assistant checks my e-mails.

We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone trees.

A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.