Quotes About Categorization

There're only two kinds of people in this world- those who think that there are two kinds of people, and those who know the truth.

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

Stop categorizing and labeling! This is your way to avoid the unknown but brings the risk to avoid the new!

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Because our minds process information almost solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category and lies outside of the realm of our analogies.

Because our minds process information solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category.

Peeps are eight and under, pez are nine to eleven, and marshmallows are twelve to fourteen.

This word, the people in it- my mother, Tantine- they sort us. Put us in crates. You are an egg. You are a potato. You are a cabbage. They tell us who we are. What we will do. What we will be." "Because they're afraid. Afraid of what we could be." Tavi said. "But we let them do it!" Hugo said angrily. "Why?" "Tavi gave him a rueful smile. "Because we're afraid of what we could be, too.

This world, the people in it - my mother, Tantine - they sort us. Put us in crates. You are an egg. You are a potato. You are a cabbage. They tell us who we are. What we will do. What we will be." "Because they're afraid. Afraid of what we could be," Tavi said. "But we let them do it!" Hugo said angrily. "Why?" Tavi gave him a rueful smile. "Because we're afraid of what we could be, too.

Shared information becomes more categorical than it is when originally presented in the individual mind. It occurs because of the greatly reduced channels of information flow between two or more separate minds, compared to the representational capacities of the individual mind, combined with the string pressure to minimize information loss.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Nilai Kemanusiaan kita ditantang secara kasar manakala keragaman di antara kita dipampatkan secara semena-mena ke dalam satu sistem kategorisasi tunggal yang semena-mena

Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.

People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it.

If you look at how people use the term 'western,' you can only conclude that it means a movie that has big hats and horses. And if you really want to sound like you've been thinking, then you'll use a term like 'genre.' But all the hell it seems to mean is big hats and horses. Which is not all that deeply analytical.

Categorizing people economically and hating them because you think they're this way is a prejudice.

It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.

In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.

When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.

I'm not much of a numbers guy, and yet that's the way I'm defined a lot.

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.