Quotes About Categorization

#1. You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Robert Morgan

#2. i happen to enjoy categorization.

Veronica Roth

#3. The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.

Amartya Sen

#4. unequally; rarely do they assign equal weights to attributes when performing categorization (Goodman, 1955; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Ortony, 1979; Sutherland & Mackintosh, 1971; Trabasso & Bower, 1968: A. Tversky, 1977).

Lawrence W. Barsalou

#5. It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.

Kalan Sherrard

#7. It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.

James Gleick

#8. What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'

Christopher Denham

#9. Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

Dwight Yoakam

#10. In fact, Kia is trans-just about every system of human categorization, and what she isn't trans- she is post-.

Neal Stephenson

#11. I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Chris Ware

#12. Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the "essential" or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#13. A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.

Frederick Lenz

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

Jeff VanderMeer

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

Rick Moody

#16. At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.

Aaron Patzer

#17. But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

Dave Eggers

#18. I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

Tony Hawk

#19. Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

Gerald Edelman

#20. Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

John Ralston Saul

#21. Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

Kenneth Rexroth

#22. Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.

Frederick Lenz

#23. Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.

Robert D. Hare

#24. What escapes categorization can escape detection altogether

Rebecca Solnit

#25. Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.

Sharon Salzberg

#26. Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.

China Mieville

#27. To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

Alain De Botton

#28. The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody

Clay Shirky

#29. 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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#30. The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

Dean Koontz

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

George Lakoff

#32. I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning.

Nikhil Sharda

#33. I can't blame you for trying to categorize me. It's a human instinct. It's why scientists are, to this day, completely flabbergasted by the duck-billed platypus: it's furry like a mammal, but lays eggs like a bird. It defies conventional classification.
I AM THE PLATYPUS (Coo coo ka-choo)

Jeff Garvin