Robertson Davies Quotes

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

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

I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

I enthuse about Scrivener to all of my friends. Some of them even listen to me and download it. This is often swiftly followed by an email complaining that it's all very confusing, and they'll stick to Microsoft Word, thanks.

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

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

What's the point in having a company of secretaries?

I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

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.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

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.

I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

A mimeograph machine may turn out to be more useful than a machine gun and clerks are more in demand than riflemen.

Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office.

I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.

I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.

I've done everything from research to stuffing envelopes.

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.