Data Classification Quotes & Sayings

We classify things for the purpose of doing something to them. Any classification which does not assist manipulation is worse than useless. — Randolph Bourne

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay. — Marshall McLuhan

Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid it is. Or maybe not "valid," but how important. — Ryan Adams

His wings, all six, shed embers of incandescent grace as he skidded across the night sky. And when he opened his mouths to scream, the Earth could do naught but shudder. — Ian Tregillis

You don't always have to fight to win. Give peace a chance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like. — Joan Larkin

She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry. — Fay Weldon

The human beings who appear in the data, survivors or not, are grouped under one machine designated classification:
Hero.
These damn machines knew us and loved us, even while they were tearing our civilization to shreds. — Daniel H. Wilson

Charlie says kissing is like baseball without the bat," Sam said.
"I think it's more like fotball without the pads," Tess laughed. "You ever kiss a girl?"
"Nah" Sam said. "Tried once, but Stacie Bing popped me in the nose and knocked me out. I woke up in the principal's office."
"Really?"
"Swear. — Ben Sherwood

I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other. — Edward W. Said

When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future. — Harry Browne

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke

I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace

I gave one last cry, trying to free my hands, trying to fix upon him, for I knew full well what he meant to do. In a dark flash of movement, he was gone, and I was lying on the floor. The candle had fallen over on the desk and had gone out. Only the light of the dying fire filled the little room. And the shutters of the door stood open, and the rain was falling, thin and quiet, yet steady. And I knew I was completely alone. — Anne Rice

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't. — Isaac Stern

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. — James Callaghan