Quotes About Categorization

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries

There are designations, like "economist," "prostitute," or "consultant," for which additional characterization doesn't add information.

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

Categorizing always produces reduction in true complexity.

But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.

We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.

And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups.

Ä°nsan kendinin s?n?flay?c?s? olmasayd?, kendini yerleÅŸtirmek için ayr? bir tak?m kurmay? asla düÅŸünmezdi.

There are two types of people in this world," Pete volunteers helpfully, "those who think there are only two types of people in the world, and everybody else.

In the world of information science, the tricky question of where to put things is known as the "ontology problem.

We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

What I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. 'You are in this box. That's all you are; that's everything you are.' It's a very de-humanizing experience.

You see, dear—I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people... and those who don't.

What species is he?" "British

All of us recognize variation within our own gender, party, ethnicity, or nation, but we are inclined to generalize about people in other categories and lump them all together as them. This habit starts awfully early.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic.

Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field.

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

It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

People tend to typecast you in a certain way, depending on the kind of work you have been doing till then.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.