kennis

It is an undoubted fact, that where as a man trained on medieval Archives adapts his knowledge and experience with little difficulty to serve him in dealing with a modern accumulation, the reverse is not the case.

Kennis is wat je nog weet nadat je alle feiten bent vergeten.

De mens die zich omringt met feiten, niet toestaat dat hij verrast wordt, geen flits van intuïtie kent, geen veronderstellingen maakt, geen risico neemt, leeft in een afgesloten cel.

Iedere goede beweging heeft vier fasen.
In de eerste wordt er om gelachen
In de tweede komen er voor en tegenstanders
In de derde raken deze slaags en overwinnen de voorstanders
In de vierde kan niemand zich voorstellen dat er iemand ooit tegen is geweest.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

(9) De archivaris dient professionele deskundigheid na te streven door systematisch en voortdurend zijn archivistische kennis bij te houden en anderen deelgenoot te maken van de resultaten van zijn onderzoek en ervaring.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

... ... The bad thing about records management is that almost everybody thinks they can un-derstand it. The problem is that since suddenly (in evolutionary terms) some deviant went and built the printing press. After that, almost no-body had control. There was only success in archiving some paper documents for reasons unknown. Since we’re digitized and we’re switching batteries in our laptop computers while streaking through the sky in shiny metal objects in which soft drinks and peanuts are served, nobody knows how to handle the huge amount of digital and digitized documents.