Quotes About Categorization

The human race can be roughly divided into two categories: ailurophiles and ailurophobes - cat lovers and the underprivileged.

We simplify tens of millions of individuals down into simplistic stereotypes, so that they hold the space of only one individual in our limited available memory slots. And here is the key—those who lie outside the circle are not human. We lack the capacity to recognize them as such.

But crucially, the difficulties surrounding racial classification also meant that definitions of black and white remained indeterminate.

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

Jusqu'à mes quatorze ans, j'ai divisé l'humanité en trois catégories : les femmes, les petites filles et les ridicules. [p. 102]

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.

Popular and good and bad is not the same thing.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Our industry is quick to judge you and then label you with a tag. I don't want that to happen.

What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again.

I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does not count as an exposure to fantasy?

We carve up the world and crown it with numbers—lumens, ounces, decibels. All these things and what to do with them. We carve up the world all the time.

We carve up the world/and crown it with numbers—lumens, ounces,/decibels. All these things and what to do with them.

The function of generalizations is quite simple. Without generalizations we could not explain anything. Things would occur around us for no reason that we could fathom. We would stand around in a stupor, unable to relate anything to anything else, for a generalization is simply a way to take some set of things (that we don't understand) and compare them with something we do understand by means of some "abstract" words.

This novel is pegged as a lesbian novel, therefore classified in the ghettos of literature. Anytime any work or any person is qualified, it's always an insult.

In Zadeh's math, we can say "This animal belongs 90% to the fish family and 10% to the amphibian family." "This animal belongs 60% to the ape family and 40% to the hominid family." See? Just like the Coke can contains 60 % coke and 40% air. I told you I wouldn't leave us wandering in the dark with the Fundamentalists . . .

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who do not.

A noun is a self-defeating wall, an adjective is a tenacious window.

It seems like -- especially in religious circles and Christian circles, we want to first talk about the things we're opposed to. That means we have to categorize that person. We can call them emergent or neo orthodox or someone who feminizes scripture. There's the category, let's stick them in the category then just blow up the box and him along with it.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.