Quotes About Documentation

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

Papier ist geduldiger als Menschen. (S.18)

Papier ist geduldiger als Menschen.

At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.

to their names, but the car they're driving is registered

He had hours of paperwork ahead of him. All this paper would one day be the downfall of the Empire.

One of the great things about the space program is it's super well-documented.

When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems.

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives.

Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that's the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years or only a few weeks. It's all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers.

History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.

all government work, including that stored in libraries, to be switched from parchment to paper.

I've] never written a thing without a record on.

England's diplomatic service had always been skeletal and underfunded; many ambassadors treated their papers as their personal property, so documentation from the past was far more patchy than in France or Spain, a problem exacerbated by the disruption of the Interregnum.

History, moreover, is a matter not only of sources but also of interpretation

Photography threatens because photography implies notice and permanent record.