Quotes About Categorization

There are three kinds of people: those who are good at math and those who aren't.

You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

In Mexic,o the concept of a sitcom doesn't actually exist - even if you do a sitcom, technically speaking, because it airs from Monday to Friday, they put it in the telenovela category. But, of course, I am from Mexico and grew up with the telenovela culture.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

I just don't think you can lump television shows together.

In essence, we tend to sort each other and ourselves into groupings, and that usually leads to an overestimation of similarities between members of a group, and an underestimation of the similarities between insiders and outsiders.

we tend to sort each other and ourselves into groupings, and that usually leads to an overestimation of similarities between members of a group, and an underestimation of the similarities between insiders and outsiders.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who divide everything into two groups, and those who don't.

We need to triage those six hundred places.

I call the Platonic mode "misintegration"—M. I call the Aristotelian mode simply "integration"—I. I call the Kantian mode "disintegration"—D.

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

People have an innate tendency to almost instantly form discrete groups. And almost instantly become biased against anyone in a different group.

A nominal scale has no implied order or magnitude—like gender or location or whether a system has a given feature.

In the same way, consider bungalow versus house versus building . . . starlet versus girl versus female . . . Colt versus revolver versus firearm . . . steak versus meat versus food.

somebody called somebody else Slotface

Witches, warlocks, gremlins, orgres - they're just words,labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?