Information and Records
- Retention (news server), in Usenet, the time a news server holds a newsgroup posting before deleting it as no longer relevant
- Data retention, in law and computing
- Data retention (telecommunication)
- Retention period, of a document, in records management
- Retented, the act of applying retention policies to something or someone
- Retention of title clause, in law
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Famous quotes containing the words information and, information and/or records:
“So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)