Document Quotes
190 quotes by 173 authors
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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
— Bill Gates
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I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document,…
— Steven Morrissey
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There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in…
— Learned Hand
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Don't document bad code - rewrite it.
— Brian Kernighan
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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and…
— Mark Twain
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A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
— Julia Alvarez
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For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now…
— August Wilson
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Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is…
— Ernst Mayr
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The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who…
— Simon Sebag-Montefiore
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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
— Franz Kafka
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In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.
— Jacques Verges
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The Constitution of the United States. It's still the best document of its kind, and written into it are exactly the kind of protections that…
— John Roderick
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often…
— Alice Hoffman
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In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing…
— Robert Fano
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Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the…
— Joseph Sobran
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The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those…
— Joseph Sobran
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Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to…
— Simon Greenleaf
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The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit…
— Nadia Boulanger
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The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history... the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis, even though the…
— Rick Sanchez
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The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory,…
— Alfonso Garcia Robles
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