Record Keeping Quotes

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics; they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

History written today is much more accurate than history written in the 18th century.

My observations are not bread crumbs. They do not dissolve. They are on record, on film printed in books, and found on the Internet. I am happy to share them. For this I was born.

I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.

It contains almost 190,000 accounts. At the rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these.

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

I've never kept a record of anything.

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

I don't give a damn about my record.

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.

Most "off the record" never continues to be "off the record.

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.