In the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Henry Jones — Indiana’s father — finds the key information needed to safely traverse a perilous journey to retrieve the Holy Grail.
Professor Henry Jones: Well, he who finds the Grail must face the final challenge.
Indiana Jones: What final challenge?
Professor Henry Jones: Three devices of such lethal cunning.
Indiana Jones: Booby traps?
Professor Henry Jones: Oh, yes. But I found the clues that will safely take us through them in the Chronicles of St. Anselm.
Indiana Jones: [pleased] Well, what are they?
[annoyed]
Indiana Jones: Can’t you remember?
Professor Henry Jones: I wrote them down in my diary so that I wouldn’t *have* to remember.
[Dialogue is documented at IMDB.com.]
Just yesterday, I wrote to a colleague asking for information, and he pointed me to a blog post that I wrote two months ago. I often keep my research findings straight, but — to adapt from Henry Jones — I write them down so that I don’t have to remember them! As University of Chicago professor Linda Ginzel tells her students, “If you don’t write it down, it doesn’t exist.”
In honor of the senior Dr. Jones, I made this little reminder…
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I like to write things down too, but then I lose the paper I wrote it on.
I thought I was the only one that really resonated with that quote…