Documentation Quotes

“McGregor went on to say, “Hamish, take word of this situation directly to Robert de Bruce, who is currently in the Glasgow area. Let him know that the Sassenach queen is at Tynemouth Priory and that we are going to capture her! She will fetch us a high ransom price from the Sassenach king!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“There were waves of genocide that overcame indigenous populations of Oceania and do we have a library of books or films to tell our story? No. We have tourist hula shows and commercials where the “natives” tend to tourists like indentured servants with plastic, lifeless smiles. It’s not such a charming picture, is it? The truth is ugly, but so is ignorance or denial of such atrocities and pain.”
― M.B. Dallocchio, Quixote in Ramadi: An Indigenous Account of Imperialism

“A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.”
― Frederick Phillips Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“I have the documents. Documents, proof, evidence, photograph, signature. One day you raise your right hand and you are American. They give you an American Pass port. The United States of America. Somewhere someone has taken my identity and replaced it with their photograph. The other one. Their signature their seals. Their own image. And you learn the executive branch the legislative branch and the third. Justice. Judicial branch. It makes the difference The rest is past.”
― Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

“[The clerk] held in front of him a scroll with a red wax seal affixed, the kind of thing believed to make a document official - or at least expensive and difficult to understand, which, in fact, amounts to the same thing.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Social tools leave a digital audit trail, documenting our learning journey—often an unfolding story—and leaving a path for others to follow.”
― Marcia Conner, The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media

“Historical gap is created due to missing written records.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“If it's not written, it never happened. If it is written, it doesn't matter what happened.”
― Sercan Leylek

“Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work—and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification.”
― Donald J. Cram, From design to discovery

“Jack would laugh if he knew, but she's been in he system long enough to understand that it all comes down to documentation. Get your papers in order, with the right signatures and record keeping, and the charges will be dropped, money released, whatever. If you're disorganized, you risk losing everything.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita , Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“What a mess,” Girl says, staring at the floor. Bending down, she retrieves the special papers. “Our existence is full of dates, times and places now,” she points at the papers. Shuffling them into a neat pile, she places them back into the folder and hands it to me.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Adira and the Dark Horse

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

“The desire to catch, as Bonnard hoped, the PASSING MOMENT is antithetical to being in the moment. The photographer is an observer to others’ moments. The Picture People have dedicated themselves to this paradox, and consign themselves on either side of the equation.”
― Lynne Tillman, Men and Apparitions

“It is human nature to write of that which interests us, of facts that are deemed essential at the time of inscription and that is why history as is documented, is as much an interpretation, as it is a collection of facts.”
― Aysha Taryam

“Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“Document your dreams.
Sketch that shape you saw.
Write those lyrics before they fade out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files.”
― Lee Sandlin, Losing the War

“We cannot live without meaning, that would preclude any sense of identity, any hope, any future.”
― Carlina Rinaldi

“This is the story I am working on. But it isn't complete as I don't have the right way to begin. I sit on the crosshouse floor and look at the objects. I see different ways they could be put together and the way the story changes over time. The objects fall into their groupings and they talk to each other in different fashions depending on where they're put and at first it makes me panic. I put the memories together again and again in their different patterns and try to understand which is the correct way. Then at last I see that there isn't one. I see that if I am lucky and do it right, the story will not ever come together in one final meaning. Because there is not yet any end.”
― Anna Smaill

“The written word is greatest sacred documentation.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation.”
― Steven Magee

“He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“The idea that a story or the mobilization of a bunch of stories is futile flies in the face of everything we now about the history of social movements in the United States. The Labor Movement, the Women's Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, the Student Movement, the LGBT Movement, the movement to Occupy Wall Street--all of these social transformations & the legislation they inspired were sparked & carried on at particular moments by tales of unrest, resistance & desire that were somehow documented & shared widely.”
― Crystal T. Laura, Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

“At the age of 49, I had given up on the medical profession correctly diagnosing me and I was only attending doctors appointments for legal documentation of health conditions that I was accurately diagnosing through internet research and experimentation.”
― Steven Magee

“I wished I could keep everything I witnessed like a photograph, to forever hold this electric aliveness.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“An anonymous goddess. Her phone is both a video camera and the sharpest pitchfork in the room, shoeing away the big monster.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Documentation is not a step on a linear timeline, and certainly not the one at the end.
One could argue documentation is a byproduct.”
― Ines Garcia

“One of the easiest ways to get noticed or hired as a junior developer in the tech industry is by documenting everything you are learning. Build great projects, but don't forget to document your journey along the way.”
― Olawale Daniel

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― rossy little things