Armin van Buuren Quotes

One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse as biology, geology, physics and astronomy is through classification.

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

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

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

Miscellaneous is always the largest category.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

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.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

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?'

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

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

Never label anything 'Miscellaneous.'

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

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

I hate to be categorized.

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

You guys, line up alphabetically by height.

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

I think that it's human nature to categorize and label things. That's generally the way that the medical and psychological professions work. You look at elements of what you have, and you are able to categorize it, and then you can cure it. That's generally what works.

I hate being categorized.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

People love to put human beings or actors in boxes.