Quotes About Classification

The industry loves to pigeonhole.

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.

People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.

The system of racial classification is fiction, and we need to thoughtfully evaluate whether perpetuating it rigidly or allowing fluidity across the spectrum best supports human rights and social justice.

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

Because the plant is an herb, not a tree, the banana is properly classed as a berry. The plant grows from a rhizome, which, in the way of a potato, has no roots. It's

Replicators may be classified in two ways. They may be 'active' or 'passive', and, cutting across this classification, they may be 'germ-line' or 'dead-end' replicators.

His entire life was probably sorted into neat little columns.

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

if you know whether a man is a decided monist or a decided pluralist, you perhaps know more about the rest of his opinions than if you give him any other name ending in IST. To believe in the one or in the many, that is the classification with the maximum number of consequences.

The cult of government secrecy is growing. ¶ The practice has become so widespread and routine that, according to testimony given before the House government information sub-committee, more than a million Federal employees are empowered to classify information. This means that one out of every 180 Americans is stamping the word 'secret' on papers.

There are two kinds of observers in science: splitters and lumpers. I've never been much of a splitter; in my heart of hearts, I'm a lumper.) In