Olivetti Quotes

#1. I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

Mona Simpson

#2. Write poetry as if you were in love. If you are always in love you will not always write the same poem, but if you are never in love, you may.
- from My Olivetti Speaks

Kenneth Koch

#3. After about fourth grade, I do remember borrowing my mother's old portable Olivetti and typing stories out on the back of photocopies of journal articles.

Ann Leckie

#4. When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

Jack Gantos

#5. I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.

Lapo Elkann

#6. I do admire efficiency,' said Marthe. 'But how tedious it can be in excess.

Dorothy Dunnett

#7. Let freedom reign.

Nelson Mandela

#8. Be fearful of mediocrity.

Jonathan Ellery

#9. You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

Lissie

#10. What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.

Carole Nelson Douglas

#11. I try to be as independent as possible.

Dries Van Noten

#12. You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.

Morgan Saylor