Documentation Quotes

“I was just trying to document the world around me, the world I was living in.”

“Commit your discoveries to writing. Meticulous recording of your experiments is even more important than the experiments themselves.”

“I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld.”

“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created.”

“To me, photography is a means of recording, a document. I’m a realist.”

“Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers think it is good for programmers and programmers hate it!”

“The manual, or specification, is the external specification of the product. It describes and prescribes every detail of what the user sees.”

“I've never regretted taking that photograph. It's one of the only photographs that shows someone dying that day.”

“I do not document, I interpret.”

“I got there late, but I got the last of it.”

“Poetry can extend the document.”

“Ever-the Human Document to keep the present and the future in touch with the past.”

“I wanted to create a literary work that was also a document about my time.”

“I was taking pictures of the people who were doing things, the people who were making the Harlem Renaissance.”