Quotes About Documentation

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Journalism is the first draft of history

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

History is not what happened but what is written down

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

I don't keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don't travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

Remember: If the IRS suspects you haven't reported income, it can challenge returns from the past six years. So if you are self-employed or have multiple income sources, hold on to six years of files to be absolutely safe.

or if the bully denies the behavior, give examples. Understand that you may not get the bully to back down and agree that the behavior was out of line. Be prepared to offer your resolution by stating specifically how you expect to be treated. If the bullying continues, document each incident. Your documentation should speak for itself so include date and time, what the person said or did, and if there were any witnesses to the conversation.

Men wielded their video cameras like weapons, recording rather than experiencing...

Nearly every Aretha gig that I booked," said Dick Alen of the William Morris Agency, "required that of her total fee, she had to have twenty-five thousand in cash before she went onstage. That was the money she used to make her payroll. She deducted no taxes and made no records. I'd beg her to implement some system of documentation, but she refused. I knew that eventually there'd be hell to pay from the IRS.

For routines you call, rely only on documented behavior. If you can't, for whatever reason, then document your assumption well.

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

A quick search through the U.S. Copyright Office's website will show that email was first used in 1979 and has been registered under 'Shiva Ayyadurai.'

Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than did his own friends, family, and contemporaries.

When you go to a normal architecture firm they aren't going to be innovative in terms of their systems. They're not going to be thinking of the whole lifespan of this project, or how do we document every single light bulb, or every product, so that when a chair breaks in a conference room, we can replace it right away.

Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.

The documentation becomes especially extensive when we come to a topic so controversial that many readers will have a "This can't possibly be true" reaction.

Mubei: Zhongguo Liushi Niandai Da Jihuang Jishi [Tombstone: A Record of the Great Chinese Famine of the 60s], Cosmos Books, Hong Kong, 2008.

This isn't a real marriage." "Not according to the state of Nevada," I said cheerfully. "We've got the paperwork to prove it. Get us a laptop, and we can all look at the wedding pictures together.

Boss, there ain't no such animal as a well-documented conspiracy.

He even let himself be vaccinated again rather than go back to the I Spy and dig out the piece of paper that showed he had been vaccinated on arrival Earthside a few weeks earlier.