Quotes About Documentation

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When you know chances are good that you will not be working on a project again, you simply gather together all the parts, wrap them up in a parcel of brown paper, and tie it with a string. Then attach a large label explaining what the project is, what the goal was, at what stage the project has been put away, and, should it ever be continued, what the next steps should be.

A historian cannot pick and choose his facts; he must deal with all the evidence.

Every time the Trump people challenge me, I bring the receipts.

For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'

People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.

My dad documented my whole life on video and there are so many recordings of my sister and I dancing and singing along to Michael Jackson's music.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.

In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.

Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories.

My mother Reba Vidyarthi was a Kathak dancer while my father Govind Vidyarthi was a theatre personality. Later on, he worked for Sangeet Natak Akademi and documented many dying art forms of India.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

I recall the moment I hit the existential crisis many in support hit of asking the universe, "Where are all the reasonable people?" and realized the answer was that many reasonable people don't contact support. They get answers from friends, coworkers, or by using the free documentation they find online.

I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

The first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper.

documenting exclusively through code has some of the same basic problems as using comprehensive UML diagrams.

A document shouldn't try to do what the code already does well.

Written documents should complement the code and the talking.

In the end, Harrington documented more than 130 languages, including Chemehuevi, Mohave, Serrano, Paiute, even K'iche'. Many of them are no longer spoken anywhere on this planet. They are preserved only in Harrington's careful records and perhaps in the fading childhood memories of the descendants of their last surviving speakers.

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What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating.

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

Her family had long had a sense of history and understood that what was not written down might almost not have existed. The Stephens and Pattles...understood the value of old pieces of paper covered in handwriting.