Quotes About Categorization

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.

People don't choose between things, they choose between descriptions of things.

System 1 represents sets by averages, norms, and prototypes, not by sums. Each

There is a genuine limit on people's ability to assign distinct labels to stimuli on a dimension, and that limit is around seven labels.

No matter how good the justification, I still see all the identities that divide human beings along racial or national lines as prisons. I'm not about to give artificial categories and man-made borders the right to limit my ties with other human beings and dictate what values I should or should not embrace.

Binary There are two kinds of people in the world. Male and Female. Gay and Straight. Black and White. Normal and Weird. Cis and Trans. There are two kinds of people in the world. Saints and Sinners. Victims and Villains. Cruel and Kind. Guilty and Innocent. There are two kinds of people in the world. Just two. Just two. Only two.

That's what humans do. We label, categorize, measure, and dissect because it gives us the illusion of control.

To separate the main issue from the side issues is the first task of the orderly mind.

Thinking about it now, I see this as my first serious exposure to the 'with us or against us' mentality; the mentality that forces you to self-identify as one thing despite your certain knowledge that you are a bit of this and a bit of that.

When the world has been fully codified and collated, when ambivalences and ambiguities have been so sponged away that we know exactly and objectively where everything is and what it is called, a sense of loss arises.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

I think we try to categorise people, put them in pigeon holes, I think we get into all sorts of difficulties.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

People did pigeonhole me.

The industry loves to pigeonhole.

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.

The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.