It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.
Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.
I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.
There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.