Quotes About Documentation

#1. The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks.

Anonymous

#3. 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

#4. Once a day, after you've done your day's work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can share.

Austin Kleon

#5. More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation.

Ben Goldacre

#6. I actually think that 'States of Union' will be a lifelong endeavor for me. It won't take up all my energy as it has in recent years, but I imagine that I will always continue to add to the body of work - the project of documentation will never be entirely complete.

Alix Smith

#7. 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

#8. Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.

Damian Conway

#9. In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation.

Elizabeth McCracken

#10. 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

#11. Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

Wietse Venema

#12. The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.

Stacy Schiff

#13. 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

#14. Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

Simon Schama

#15. A.F. WS-315A medium-range missile system), Douglas acquired access to several German V-2 Rockets. These were the wonder weapons of the day, notable for their sizable documentation packages. They

William Mills Tompkins

#16. Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

Elizabeth Warren

#17. 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

#18. Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.

Nancy Pelosi

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

Ragnar Kjartansson

#20. The success of the documentation efforts lies in the users being able to correctly locate and use the resolutions to their issues on time and retain that knowledge for later use.

Suyog Ketkar

#21. We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.

Alan Cheuse

#22. I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

Arnulf Rainer

#23. 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

#24. Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

Bertrand Meyer

#25. 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

#26. In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists.

Tom Cole

#27. History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Julian Barnes

#28. Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

Albert Murray

#29. The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.

Simon Schama

#30. Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind ... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

Irving Stone

#31. 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

#32. Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.

Jim Highsmith

#33. Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in the form of declassified documents, memoirs, oral histories and journalistic treatments, to begin to piece together the story.

Fredrik Logevall

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

Evan Angler

#35. 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

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

John Mason Brown

#37. 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

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

Jan Dibbets

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

Ian MacKaye

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

Anonymous

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

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

Kenneth Goldsmith

#50. (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

#51. I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

Henry Rollins

#52. 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

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

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Malkiese Paythress

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

Tim Berners-Lee

#56. 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

#57. 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

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

Diane Keaton

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

Matisyahu

#60. 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.

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

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

Lee Sandlin

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

Carlina Rinaldi

#67. A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#68. [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

#69. Historical gap is created due to missing written records.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#70. 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