Best Documentation Quotes

#1. 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

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

Diane Keaton

#3. Agile methods don't attempt to describe everything that any development effort might need in thousands of pages of documentation. Instead they describe a minimal set of activities that are needed to create swarm intelligence.

Jim Highsmith

#4. I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#5. 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

#6. I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed.

Shelley Berkley

#7. 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

#8. As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The question is what kind of technology, in the end, do we want to deploy in the far reaches of the ocean? Tools of science, ecology and documentation, or the destructive tools of heavy industry?

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#9. Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.

Matisyahu

#10. 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

#11. Dozens of paintings could fit those general descriptions. Instead, claimants had to describe their stolen painting in detail, including if possible the canvas measurements - an important identifying point in paintings - and provide documentation of prior ownership.

Simon Goodman

#12. 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

#13. We cannot live without meaning, that would preclude any sense of identity, any hope, any future.

Carlina Rinaldi

#14. I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

Tim Berners-Lee

#15. ART CREATION IS THE DOCUMENTATION OF THE SOUL'S VOICE

Malkiese Paythress

#16. Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

Jorge Luis Borges

#17. Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.

Dave Barry

#18. 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

#19. Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files.

Lee Sandlin

#20. The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

Adam Osborne

#21. I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you ... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

Kathleen Hanna

#22. Excessive record-keeping is a symptom of insecurity and defensive thinking. It indicates that you are less concerned attaining objectives than you are with documentation, and that your thinking is oriented to the past, not the present.

Edwin Bliss

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos - some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership.

Jim Highsmith

#26. Tests provide the only reliable documentation of design.

Anonymous

#27. I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.

Ian MacKaye

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

Jan Dibbets

#29. Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

Douglas Crockford

#30. Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

John Mason Brown

#31. I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

Pitbull

#32. In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.

Evan Angler