Quotes About Classification

People don't understand the classification process and they also don't understand a condition like MS and how it has different effects on different people. Neurological conditions are all so different because we don't know what people have gone through and how their brains adapt to it all and you can't assess everything with the naked eye.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

What society classifies as "credible" is almost always a product of whichever social demographic happens to be economically dominant at the time of the classification.

North America Industry Classification Standard (NAICS)

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)

So I separated all my books into stacks: best friends, old friends, classic friends, new friends, and casual acquaintances.

With the exception of Santiago, a caravel, the ships were all classified as naos, a term that simply meant ships.

How this extraordinary situation could possibly have gone undetected can be explained in part by the fact that the required annual inspection of the ship had been carried out by government inspectors on May 16, 1934, a month before Captain Wilmott issued his order. The inspectors concluded that the Morro Castle still had the right to "the highest classification" of the American Bureau of Shipping.

No one ever throws a perfect blow in the exact line it is supposed to be in—but by having a set of lines with which to classify blows, we can improve our own efforts, and respond more effectively to our opponent's. Fencing principles help us draw general conclusions from a basically chaotic situation.

Once a label (professor, housewife, chair, butterfly, automobile, laxative) has been applied, people are less likely to notice the actual qualities or attributes of what is being labeled.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

If you're not in the right classification, you're basically stealing funding and opportunities from other people. This is not the NFL. There's only so much money to go around.

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

Calling Confucius a philosopher is the wrong classification. Like calling a whale a fish.

You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That's not fair. It's not American.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.

Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.

Because the staging of human embryos is complex, owing to the continuous process of change during development, it is proposed that a new system of classification could be developed using the terms mentioned in the Qur'an and Sunnah. The proposed system is simple, comprehensive, and conforms with present embryological knowledge.287 (Dr. Keith L. Moore, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Toronto)