Documentation Quotes
38 quotes by 35 authors
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From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues…
— Marina Abramovic
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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…
— Simon Schama
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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…
— Hans Hofmann
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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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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…
— Steven M. Greer
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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…
— V.S. Naipaul
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I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite sure…
— Ian MacKaye
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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…
— Dale Spender
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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…
— Steve McConnell
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Good code is its own best documentation.
— Steve McConnell
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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…
— Fredrik Logevall
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Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things…
— Jakob Nielsen
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Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.
— Bertrand Meyer
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The real power of this book comes from its documentation from major sources. In fact, you will quickly discover that most of my documents about…
— David Duke
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Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
— Wietse Venema
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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
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I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or…
— Ed McCabe
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Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past…
— Nobuyoshi Araki
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Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.
— Jim Highsmith
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