Joel Rosenberg Quotes

i happen to enjoy categorization.

The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

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

One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

You guys, line up alphabetically by height.

I don't mind categories, but it's so hard to find one that fits.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

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

Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

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 we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

Lists have always implied social order.

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

Never label anything 'Miscellaneous.'

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

I hate to be categorized.

There are some people who fit into categories very well. But then there are a lot who don't.