Accurate Quote by Antony Beevor

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel…

— Sarah Harrison

It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've done…

— Matana Roberts

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

— Taryn Simon

I mean it's always good to document your history. 'Cos for some strange reason black history has a tendency of getting lost. So I…

— Big Daddy Kane

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having…

— Michael Bywater

Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes…

— Henry Ford

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and…

— Douglas Coupland

But then history does not only consist of documents.

— John Lukacs

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is…

— Paul Saffo

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled…

— Leonard Susskind

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck