Quotes About Documentation

She made an Excel spreadsheet on her laptop that lays it all out. Jack would laugh if he knew, but she's been in the system long enough to understand that it all comes down to documentation.

Only a very few people leave traces in history, or even bequeath family documents to their descendants. Most have no money to memorialise themselves, and lack even a gravestone to mark their existence. Women's lives, in particular, remain largely unrecorded. But even so, did they not shape the future?

Moritz Stern's Source Contributions to the Position of the Popes on the Jews, which gathered together the medieval papacy's impressive record denouncing the ritual-murder accusation

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

I decided on 'Kaagaz' as the title because everything, from birth to death, divorce, to agreement, is done on papers. Without valid papers, a person cannot even prove his identity.

Paperwork is as necessary to modern life as food and shelter. You can't live without it.

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

Art is the most important way of recording history.

to prove to all and ourselves that we are real, that we like everyone else simply want our lives on tape, proven, feel that what we are doing only becomes real once it has been entered into the record.

Each work's title is followed: by either its year of completion, or by 'B.S.,' designating undated completion before Subsidization;

The classic authority has been Alexander Hislop's Two Babylons, published in 1883. A modern update by Dave Hunt, A Woman Rides the Beast, is well documented and an essential addition to the serious student's library.)

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

She couldn't shake the feeling that if she didn't record this moment on her phone then it wasn't really happening, it didn't count

I think perhaps we've all learned to be a little kinder to one another. And to document everything. Everything.

Mucho de lo que sacaba de Internet era sospechoso, pues la red era como la Biblia: se podía encontrar documentación para apoyar con firmeza cualquier postura si uno navegaba el tiempo suficiente.

Suzanne Briet proposed in 1951 that an antelope running wild would not be a document, but an antelope taken into a zoo would be one,

We will literally send a van and a photographer to the home of anybody that can say they can't get a picture made and a photo ID and we will do it... at the state's cost and the taxpayer cost and not at the individual cost.

My process varies, but I usually start by reading everything I can, especially financial and legal filings. Then I build a list of all of the people I want to contact and send in requests for public records, if applicable.

At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file system. Did not really do very much programming at all. At least on Multics.

The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.

The more paperwork you can get for your car, the better. If the owner has little or no paperwork you won't know for sure what work has been carried out previously on the vehicle.