Bill Cosby Quotes

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

If you didn’t write it down, you didn’t say it.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

I designed a tattoo for a girl once, and she got it, which I thought was pretty cool. We no longer speak. She'll always remember me, though - I can guarantee that.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

My role is to bear witness and to bring back what people see and tell you.

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should he committed to writing, and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

Things written, remain.

If You Do Not Write It, You Never Said It

I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Protect yourself by always having a record of what transpired or was said in any situation that might be considered sensitive.

Records just happen.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.