Quotes About Categorization

wine stores should organize their bottles not by origin and varietal but by alcohol content and intensity of flavor

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.

Five of these ancient events were catastrophic enough that they're put in their own category: the so-called Big Five.

It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are.

naming things can be helpful.

I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.

It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.

It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.

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

Like a long-haul jet, their building was divided into economy, business, and first.

People don't want other people to be people. They throw names over them and lock them in

Our categories arise from the fact that we are neural beings, from the nature of our bodily capacities, from our experience interacting in the world, and from our evolved capacity for basic-level categorization - a level at which we optimally interact with the world. Evolution has not required us to be as accurate above and below the basic level as at the basic level, and so we are not.

In India, people tend to get categorised by their job or caste or colour. But in Kamathipura, despite their horrid living, it was truly eye-opening how kind and sensitive these women are.

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

The entertainment business can't thrive without putting you in a box.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

A thing named is a dead thing, and it's dead because it is set apart…

The female genital is symbolically represented by all those objects which share its peculiarity of enclosing a space capable of being filled by something—viz., by pits, caves, and hollows, by pitchers and bottles, by boxes and trunks, jars, cases, pockets, etc. Theship, too, belongs in this category.

old music these days. He explained that the industry divided releases up into 'current' (which spanned from day one of release to fifteen months later) and 'catalogue' (from the sixteenth month onwards). But catalogue itself was divided up into two categories: what was relatively recent, and what was 'deep catalogue', to which music was assigned three years after release.

She arranged her own books