Quotes About Classification

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.

Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.

Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

We somehow want all the 1's to "be attracted to one place", and all the 2's to "be attracted to another place". Or, put a different way, if an image is somehow "closer to being a 1" than to being a 2, we want it to end up in the "1 place" and vice versa.

The species name is kind of like your own first name (except it comes last in a plant's botanical name). The genus name is similar to your family name (except in botanical names, it comes first).

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Once a small planet is discovered, astronomers try to determine which category it belongs to. This is like biologists trying to classify a new animal as either being a mammal or reptile.

Estão ambos classificados, etiquetados e é segundo a fidelidade de cada um à sua etiqueta que serão julgados (mas, é claro, é a isso e a nada mais que se chama com ênfase: ser fiel a si próprio).

Foi no hospital que comecei a classificar os livros em duas categorias: os diurnos e os noturnos. É verdade, há livros para o dia, e livros que só podem ser lidos à noite.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

and it is these differences that are classified as the particular

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

I don't like the intellectual label.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

I don't like to label films with a genre.

Never label anything 'Miscellaneous.'

I think people like to label everything. I just think it's comfortable.

I hate genres. I think they're just marketing labels.

three quarters of the world's poorest people now live in middle-income countries. Not because they have moved but because their nations have become better off overall and so have been reclassified by the World Bank as middle-income. Many of those countries, however—including the largest such as China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria—are becoming more unequal, which explains how they can simultaneously be home to most of the world's poorest people.

then she said, annoyed, "You get that this is a story about you, right? That's why you lost your mind at a dog park. You're Tuesday. You're the incredibly special dog that no one can classify.

Kate) had found multiple titles by individual authors scattered willy-nilly through the collection. It made her want to pull her hair out. Obviously!- an individual author's body of work all belonged on one shelf, the works arranged, in turn, by whatever system was most suitable: by volume number, alphabetically by title, or by the year of publication, or, in case of playwrights, works grouped by genre- tragedies with tragedies, comedies with comedies, histories with histories, and so on.

Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish.