“Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.” KnowsWayMindMeanProblemSeemsFictionRecordsReaderFindingsStoresOne WayLabelsGenreFavouriteFilesAustinRecord StoresWaterloo Author:Charles de Lint
“Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.” BelieveHardAbleRoomsRecordsBrokenPhonesLawyerRussiaStolenFilesPistolsHard To BelieveArmed Guards Author:Jimmy Hoffa
“A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible.” FirstsStillsDreamMemoriesRecordsImpossibleMagicSourceMusic IsManagementSpotsDataDumbCorporationsShopsUnexpectedShelvesFilesOld FriendsPossible And ImpossibleFacelessFile Sharing Author:Max Richter
“As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn’t cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.” ShouldMatterMemoriesRecordsExperimentsUselessInvestigationFiles Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.” MenEyeDesireHeavenAnswersRecordsBrokenReturnOne DayConfusedGloriousCrownsFilesRequestGroaningSo Confused Author:Thomas Brooks
“The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.” RoomsRecordsPaperFilledCurrentsMedicalHospitalsHospitalityFilesMedical Records Author:Timothy Murphy