Quotes About Categorization

That is why they have poets—to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.

Purity is not the same as morality but is about who or what is fit for the temple, and so classifications are made.

All organisms can make the most basic distinctions--between food and not-food, danger and safety, light and dark, same-species and not-same. But only people can use language to make the highly complex categorizations of, say, animals or physical forces, or however many different kinds of quarks there are now, putting them in separate piles and naming the piles. It's how we proceed; it's how we communicate. Organization into categories is, at bottom, human.

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

It would cease to be a danger if we could define it

The younger we are, the more each individual object represents for us the whole class to which it belongs.

We may have lumped several different diseases together in describing the syndrome.

Categories are how we make sense of the world and communicate our ideas to others. But we are such categorization machines that we often see categories where none exist. That warps our view of the world and our decision-making suffers.

When David wasn't ruling, he would ponder all the various forms of laughter there could be. So far, he had only categorized four: laughter at your own expense, laughter at the expense of others, laughter at the human predicament, and laughter at small animals falling off tables.

Lists are the only way out of this mess.

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Now, for solid historical reasons, I'm not comfortable with dividing people up into groups.

I wouldn't categorize myself as R&B or hip-hop. I don't really know how to categorize myself. I'm still working out where I fit with that stuff. I kind of think of myself as pop.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

To be categorized is, simply, to be enslaved

The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories—gay and straight.

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.