Full Idea
Everything worth notice is worth recording; and those records should be so made that they can readily be arranged, and particularly so that they can be rearranged.
Gist of Idea
Everything interesting should be recorded, with records that can be rearranged
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], V)
Book Reference
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.188
A Reaction
Yet another epigraph for my project! Peirce must have had a study piled with labelled notes, and he would have adored this database, at least in its theory.
Related Idea
Idea 19241 An idea on its own isn't an idea, because they are continuous systems [Peirce]