Categories Quote by Kurt Elling

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

— Fiona Apple

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

— Steve McQueen

We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words...

— Roman Abramovich

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and its a totally understandable need because…

— Armin van Buuren

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because…

— Armin van Buuren

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

— Roger Ebert

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

— William James

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

— John Legend

You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.

— Jake Gyllenhaal