70 Xerox Quotes

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Copiers do not collaborate. - Antoni Gaudi

Copiers do not collaborate. — Antoni Gaudi

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product. — Philippe Starck

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells. — Anthony Atala

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type. — Andy Hertzfeld

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories. - Theodore Levitt

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories. — Theodore Levitt

We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material. — J. C. R. Licklider

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else. — Milton Glaser

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was. — Edwin Land

Copy and paste is a design error. - David Parnas

Copy and paste is a design error. — David Parnas

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom. — John Sexton

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. — David Ferrier

Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac ) — Seymour Cray

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece. — Cindy Sherman

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. — Pablo Picasso

Short Xerox Quotes

  • Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. — Marshall McLuhan
  • DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine. — Kenneth E. Boulding
  • Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. — Andrew Young
  • Entire families work for Xerox. — Anne M. Mulcahy
  • My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide. — Michael Cera
  • A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement. — Antonin Scalia
  • The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts. — Neale Donald Walsch
  • When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over. — Katie Couric
  • Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process. — Ursula Burns
  • I don't even know how to spell 'legacy! — Ronnie Dunn

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More Xerox Quotes

By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become the vibrant, profitable and revitalized company that it still is today. What made the difference was a strong turnaround plan, dedicated people and a firm commitment from company leaders. — Anne M. Mulcahy

Crankiness is a human attribute that when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful. — Ursula Burns

Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox. — Chuck D

My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work was just drawings. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of punk scene. They weren't about punk. They were just collections of drawings, some of which I xeroxed and sold. — Raymond Pettibon

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. — Ursula Burns

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment. — Robert Kiyosaki

If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, youll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe. — Ursula Burns

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole. — Robert Metcalfe

I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty. — Anne M. Mulcahy

When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history. — Douglas Rushkoff

When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. — Anne M. Mulcahy

If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business. — Anne M. Mulcahy

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office. — Ursula Burns

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox. — Hillary Clinton

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. — Sayings

I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine. — Steven Wright

All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox. — Vera Wang

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance. — Louis Eric Barrier

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly. — Andrew Young

The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of the inner circles of Dante's Inferno. — Nicholas Goodison

I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty. — Ghita Levine

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills. — Lesley Stahl

Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer. — Antonio Perez

The artwork for the record is kind of an homage to that. It's a collage, which rhymes with homage, I just realized. It's an homage to this kind of almost like a teenager's idea of what the future might look like, if he were using a Xerox machine and cut-and-pasting it together. Which is exactly what we did to come up with the artwork. — Michael Stipe

I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films. But there's definitely beauty and art and design in games. I don't think anybody could deny that. — Edgar Wright

I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great. — Cary Elwes

You can't just think that you will get a job for no good reason... And I think that the other part is you have to work your way up, you know I did a lot of Xeroxing and getting coffee...I always did what I was asked to do. I delivered. People knew that I would get things done and get them done well. And that is a big part of our resumes, are based on being responsible and being willing to do what needed to be done. — Madeleine Albright

If you cannot sell, you cannot be an entrepreneur. If you cannot sell, you cannot raise money. if the thought of sales terrifies you, get a job at a dept. store and start there. Or get a job with a company like Xerox that requires that you go around to businesses and knock on doors. As your courage increases, you may want to try a company in network marketing or direct sales that is willing to train you. — Robert Kiyosaki

The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it. — Jeff Vespa

Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing outright. — Steve Wozniak

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare. — Steven Wright

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots. — Alice Cooper

I'm telling you that at eight she knew more about reproduction than Xerox. — Joan Rivers

Have you tried neuroxing papers? It.'s a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let it go through there into the brain. It's much better than xeroxing. — Sydney Brenner

The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder ― its DNA ― Xerox it, and embed it in the fertile line of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines. — Neal Stephenson

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