Maureen Dowd Quotes

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.

I've never kept a record of anything.

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should he committed to writing, and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

Michael Cohen is one of the world's greatest evidence hoarders. He rarely threw anything away.

There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

Johnson didn’t keep a diary. He didn’t write notes to himself. He was uniquely a man of the telephone.

Since human memory is short and does not suffice for a crowd of things, the authority of those who preceded our age, the divine emperors and kings, has decreed that those things were to be written down which the progress of fleeting time generally removes from the knowledge of men.

Nothing on paper; paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those things will provoke a story, but I think that that kind of paying attention all the time, and keeping everything open, lets the stories come in. But where they come from is still a mystery to me.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful.

I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

I think it's a violation of user privacy to continue storing email addresses if you tell users your service is shutting down. I sign up for a service, and if you're no longer providing that service, why should you keep my information?

I can't help it: when something strikes me, I write it down.

Records just happen.

I'd like to think that my mentors, I've had the highest of education and one thing I've always noted, they were always writing stuff down, taking notes.

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.