Quotes About Recordkeeping

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

I try to have a balanced diet. I try to write down everything that I eat.

Categories make for efficient communication and statistical recordkeeping. They also satisfy the human lust for making things seem simpler than they are. We have been trying to map the landscape of mental disorders by drawing lines around clusters of symptoms as if they were island, but mental disorders are more like ecosystems...defying crisp boundaries.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

You should keep a copy of your tax return indefinitely, but you need to save supporting documents for only three years.

Following his father's example, he recorded every expense in his little book

As part of this studious approach, he recorded all his golf scores in thick little books, with names, dates, and places included.

Did I say that? One says so many things, and the problem is they all get written down.

I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.

Herodotus has preserved for us an inscription that he found on one pyramid, recording the quantity of radishes, garlic and onions consumed by the workmen who built it;

The astronomer's rule of thumb: if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen

Many small businesses use what is called a modified cash-basis accounting method. These businesses record most transactions when cash is exchanged, but account for certain transactions, such as the purchase and use of equipment, over time using a method called depreciation.

English had been used since the start of the seventh century to draft administrative documents,

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.