Quotes About Categorization

I meant "tribalism" in the widest sense of the word, as applied to race, religion, nationalism, or politics. George Orwell defined it as that "habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled 'good' or 'bad.

they had an ability to classify, a logical lucidity, that Professor Galiani didn't possess.

Officialdom needs to put you in a categorizing box, and if it cannot then it is free to make its own verdict upon your status

White and black: with these two categories the diversity of a thousand ethnicities is lost.

Stupids categorize the proverbs into positive and negative thoughts, but the sage comprehends that the proverbs are the guiding lights to show us the right path of life.

Metadata, in its most informal but most prevalent definition, is "data about data.

This means that the attributes used to describe an information resource are metadata about that resource.

According to Marcia Lei Zeng and Jian Qin, an ontology describes (a)the types of things that exist (classes), (b)the relationships between them (properties), and (c)the logical ways those classes and properties can be used together (axioms).46

People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

As for my voice, it cannot be categorised - and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range.

I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

People label themselves husbands, wives, moms, sisters, and friends before they label themselves Democrats or Republicans.

When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

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

Collecting, especially of the classifying sort epitomized by stamp collecting, offered a means to seem to gain control of the world and of the past.

Once you label me you negate me.

so hard, sometimes, to tag those memories accurately.

His books commingled democratically, united under the all-inclusive flag of Literature. Some were vertical, some horizontal, and some actually placed behind others. Mine were balkanized by nationality and subject matter.