Tim Berners-Lee
Computer Scientist
"I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other."
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Documentation
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Julian Barnes
Author
"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers."
Ted Leo
Musician
"If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it."
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