Quotes About Classification

Was there a Dewey Decimal number too? Winnie asked. He had the impression if she could snort Dewey numbers she'd get high.

I am like the Census," he said, "broken down by age, sex and religion.

She thought briefly of one police force in a neighboring state, some years back, which without a second thought had for many years classified people murdered in its jurisdiction as "male victim," "female victim," and "prostitute.

At the curiosity stage we are really only making two large piles: keep and discard.

Vos livre sont classés selon quel principe? demandai-je. -Le principe du désordre absolu, dit-il.

I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more.

People were classified, and often judged, by their denomination. And they were certainly condemned if they didn't claim one.

Representation involves definition, exclusion, separation.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

Sabemos bien que en cualquier sociedad el orden social y cultural gobierna la relación con la naturaleza, que nombrar es clasificar, que una soledad absoluta es impensable, que toda identidad se define en relación con una alteridad, y que lo mismo y lo otro están estrechamente ligados, asociados en el tiempo y en el espacio.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Wild animals. I had not, until that moment, put dragons in that class. I had thought them something apart.

Hele universet var endegyldigt forsynet med etiketter, ordnet, klassificeret. Frem for alt ikke ræsonnere, ikke tænke, ikke sætte spørgsmålstegn, det ville være det rene tidsspilde, da det alligevel ikke var muligt at nå frem til en anden klassifikation.

If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, it's a duck, right?

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

Is an egg a vegetable?

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Roberto DeMatteis had seven species

Regrettably, we live in a society that has become habituated to the quick-fix solutions that are implied in pathologizing labels such as "depression," "anxiety," "bad marriage," "bad job." At times, of course, these classifications are useful, at least for diagnostic purposes.

Weed, are you familiar with the work of Carl Linnaeus? His Systema Naturae describes a classification system for all growing things." Weed's eyes dart everywhere, probing every corner. "Unless he visited the madhouse, I never met him," he replies.