The Archive is the collection of all material traces left behind by a particular historical period and culture which one can use to deduce a historical a priori.

Archive is a kind of thought in which the eye goes beyond things to visibilities and language goes beyond words to utterances.

Comparison is no proof.

Comparison is painful — Bats feel proud in the absence of birds

Comparison is the essence of all judgement — Nothing is good or bad but by comparison.

Comparison is natural — after visiting another man's house one notices rotten beams in one's own.

A Diagnosis is arrived at by the doctor first asking the patient what's wrong, and then the patient asking the doctor.

Diagnosis is crucial — disease known is half cured

Diagnosis is important — the beginning of health is to know the disease.

Diagnosis is important — a disease known is half cured.

Documentation is the castor oil of programming ... Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much.

Documentation is always a risk — don't put anything in writing that you wouldn't want to see in print.

Documentation is the way the program used to be, or perhaps the way it should have been

Documentation is instructions translated from Swedish by Japanese for English speaking persons.