Quotes About Categorization

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

We think the right categorization for digital devices is something you hold in your hand, a mobile-type product, and something you sit two feet away from.

People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.

Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'

The very concept of "industry" is an artificial categorization. Often the most important competition any business will face is from entrants who are not hamstrung by assumptions about what their "industry" expects of them.

Margaret noticed that he was one of the many men who classify women into those you talk to and those with whom words merely impede the way.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

when you think categorically, you have trouble seeing how similar or different two things are. If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.

Kids learn dichotomies in the absence of any ill intent. When a kindergarten teacher says, "Good morning, boys and girls," the kids are being taught that dividing the world that way is more meaningful than saying, "Good morning, those of you who have lost a tooth and those of you who haven't yet.

the thing is that it labels.

Wilson has some fancy name for it, but I call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eating line I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I call shallamagouslem.

Ah, did he not hate that word 'gay'? He thought it a strange categoriser of a life style with many elements far from zippy. No, he would de-kike the word 'faggot', which had punch, bite, a non-nonsense, chin-out assertiveness, and which, at present, was no more self-deprecatory than, say, 'American'.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.

So, what is beauty if it isn't Angelina Jolie and Reese Witherspoon? Why do we try to pin it down by categorizing it as absolute? Why limit it at all? Why is classic beauty the gold standard? Why is gold the gold standard? And what is "classic"? What's precious about precious stones? Why are diamonds a girl's best friend? Don't tell me what beauty is before I know it for myself.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

I file this away under Misc. Facts about M.

By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

If it had a name, he says, what would that change, exactly? Would it be more acceptable to you? Would it be a thing people do? Would it have a category unto itself?

The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to justify imperialism and slavery. They're categories intended for the enforcement of power. They were never intended to be psychologically satisfying in the way we want them to be.

Does it, does it—I'm flailing here—does it have a name? What you've done? If it had a name, he says, what would that change, exactly? Would it be more acceptable to you? Would it be a thing people do? Would it have a category unto itself?