Quotes About Documentation

Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

Everything that you see in 'Unhinged' that's quoted can be verified as documented and corroborated.

The question of a valid parental-child relationship is at the center of how the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services handle detainment. Because of fraudulent documentation, profits to smugglers, and false asylum claims, there is essentially no way to prove or verify adults traveling with children are indeed their parents.

In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation.

Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

And a tape recorder, spinning slow like taffy, taking down every word.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

The Documents Project has actively collected documentation on both island-based Puerto Rican art as well as Nuyorican art in the United States through partnerships and researchers ceded at the University of Puerto Rico's museum in San Juan and Hunter College's Center for Puerto Rican Studies in New York City, respectively.

I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

Journalism is the first rough draft of history.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

The camera has replaced actual looking and turned life into evidence. It drives me crazy. February 1, 2014

La Société française allait être l'historien, je ne devais être que le secrétaire.

Leonardo was a doer. He painted, of course, but he also went into the mountains to examine rocks and fossils and to the tidal marshes to look at the wings and flying habits of dragonflies. He took apart machines to see how they worked and took apart humans to the same end. He recorded all of his discoveries in what amounted to about thirteen thousand pages of notes and drawings.

I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up.

Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after taking an overnight, and being asked to present my travel documents and realizing I forgot them at the hotel, they kicked me off the train and sent me back!

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

I felt it was time for there to be a document of what we sound like now.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.