Citatenlijst

It is the dead who govern. 
Look you, man, how they work their will upon us! 
Who have made the laws? The dead! 
Who have made the customs that we obey and that form and shape our lives? The dead! 
And the titles to our lands? Have not the dead devised them? 
If a surveyor runs a line he begins at some corner the dead set up; and if one goes to law upon a question the judge looks backwards through his books until he finds how the dead have settled it - and he follows that. 
And all the writers, when they would give weight and authority to their opinions, quote the dead; and the orators who preach and lecture are not their mouths filled with words that the dead have spoken? 
Why, man, our lives follow grooves that the dead have run out with their thumbnails!

If whatever we do can be held against us years later, if all our impulsive comments are preserved, they can easily be combined into a composite picture of ourselves. Afraid how our words and actions may be perceived years later and taken out of context, the lack of forgetting may prompt us speak less freely and openly.

Papermindset document format.

"What the searchlight makes visible will depend upon its position, upon our way of directing it, and upon its intensity, colour, etc.; although it will, of course, also depend very largely upon the things illuminated by it."

Almost everything lasts longer than the technology you choose. Therefore choose whatever fulfils your business requirements.

Principes als tolerantie, democratie, rechtvaardigheid, persoonlijke vrijheid en vrijheid van meningsuiting kunnen slechts worden verdedigd door mensen die begrijpen wat deze principes betekenen, hoe ze ontstaan en ontwikkeld zijn en waarom ze van belang zijn.

Je zou kunnen zeggen dat er geen sprake is van schending van privacy zolang gegevens nog in een trommel zitten en de deksel daarvan niet wordt opgelicht.

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

Het is de oplossing die hardnekkig naar een probleem zoekt, waardoor de echte problemen almaar groeien.

If any principle should govern archival theory, it is not the fonds, but rather the visualisation through description of functional structures, both internal and external: archival narratives about those multiple relationships of creation and use so that researchers may truly understand records from the past. If that is called the principle of (virtual) provenance, I shall not object, for it is the best continuation of the archival tradition of respecting the context of records.