Quotes About Sorting

It doesn't work like that. You don't just pick your song. The song picks you. Like the Sorting Hat.

Afternoon with Michel, sorting maman's belongings. Began the day by looking at her photographs. A cruel mourning begins again (but had never ended). To begin again without resting. Sisyphus.

We need to triage those six hundred places.

You guys line up alphabetically by height.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

public class MergeBU { private static Comparable[] aux; // auxiliary array for merges // See page 271 for merge() code. public static void sort(Comparable[] a) { // Do lg N passes of pairwise merges. int N = a.length; aux = new Comparable[N]; for (int sz = 1; sz < N; sz = sz+sz) // sz: subarray size for (int lo = 0; lo < N-sz; lo += sz+sz) // lo: subarray index merge(a, lo, lo+sz-1, Math.min(lo+sz+sz-1, N-1)); } }

It was Ivan's morning duty to open each box, identify the species, vigor, mood, and fang-count of the writhing things inside, and sort them by genuine urgency.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

to shelve him. At

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to sort out what is credible and what is not.

While the train racketed along, he sorted his currency into envelopes that he'd brought from home—each envelope clearly marked with a different denomination. (No fumbling with unfamiliar coins, no peering at misleading imprints, if you separate and classify foreign money ahead of time.)

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

I can't believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children.

The only way to deal with old baggage was to open it up and sort through. How else to know what to keep and what to toss?

When we were babies, mum had to dress one of us in one colour, like blue and green, and she'd put a little mark on our hand or toe... she definitely had to sort us out.

We were thinking of secrets. Real secrets, and snide. Too many to count. When I try now to sort out who knew what and who knew nothing, who knew everything and who was a fraud, I have to stop and give it up, it makes my head spin.

How negative eugenics, as it came to be known, emerged as the focus of the movement is, on one hand, complicated, involving many different fields of science and points of view, all occurring within a context of massive social disruptions. But on the other hand, it's not complicated at all. We like having people exist lower on the pecking order than we do. And so the great sorting of humans into categories of deficiency gave eugenicists the perfect target: the abnormals and defectives.

At the end of the party, each person will have selected certain players he would like to see more of, while others he will discard, regardless of how skillfully or pleasantly they each engaged in the pastime. The ones he selects are those who seem the most likely candidates for more complex relationships—that is, games. This sorting system, however well rationalized, is actually largely unconscious and intuitive.

I'm still out there. In my head. I have to sort it out or I'll never come home.

The Internet goes doot-doot-doot - it goes sideways. There's nothing hierarchical about it. And the best thing about it is also the worst thing about it, which is there are no gatekeepers on the Internet. Consequently, there's a whole lot of bad information on the Internet. But I think that sorts itself out over time.

Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.