Documentation famous quotes

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.
-- Alberto Gonzales

#Government #Example #Documentation

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.
-- Bertrand Meyer

#Documentation

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.
-- Dale Spender

#Women #Past #Documentation

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.
-- Diane Keaton

#Past #Keys #Documentation

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon

#Sex #Documentation #Computer

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.
-- Hans Hofmann

#Art #Documentation #Spirit

Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.
-- Jakob Nielsen

#Tasks #Documentation #May

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
-- John Mason Brown

#Passion #Prejudice #Documentation

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.
-- Jorge Luis Borges

#Suffering #Documentation #Language

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
-- Julian Barnes

#Memories #Imperfection #Documentation

Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.
-- Linus Torvalds

#Fire #Trying #Documentation

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.
-- Marina Abramovic

#Art #Attitude #Documentation

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.
-- Mark Udall

#Holocaust #Documentation #Horror

A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.
-- Raymond Simard

#Humorous #Needs #Documentation

Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.
-- Steve McConnell

#Funny Inspirational #Documentation #Add

Good code is its own best documentation.
-- Steve McConnell

#Technology #Documentation #Code

There are more than 3500 military and commercial aircraft pilot reports of encounters worldwide; many cases have corroborating radar documentation and multiple witnesses both on the ground and in the air.
-- Steven M. Greer

#Military #Air #Documentation

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
-- V. S. Naipaul

#Writing #Documentation #Details

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
-- Wietse Venema

#Acceptance #Becoming #Documentation

If you struggle with issues of documentation, issues of your health care, issues of whether or not you'll be punished for being open about who you are, those things affect how you can be employed or not employed, how you can get an apartment or not get an apartment, how it is that you feel free or not free.
-- Amber Hollibaugh

#Struggle #Issues #Documentation

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.
-- Geoffrey Batchen

#Photography #Documentation #Mediums

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.
-- Jan Dibbets

#Real #Documentation #Done

I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.
-- Ragnar Kjartansson

#Play #Interesting #Documentation

I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute."
-- Brian Chippendale

#Writing #Documentation #Minutes

Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.
-- Damian Conway

#Writing #Self #Documentation