# There are X kinds of people in the world:

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 9, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-x-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/343722 "2006-02-09T19:06:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-x-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/343722/21 "2006-02-10T22:01:34Z")

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there are possibly 2 1/2 (or  
impossibly 3) individuals  
every several fat thousand years;  
expecting more would be neither fan  
tastic nor pathological but _dumb_  
-ee cummings

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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-x-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/343722/22 "2006-02-10T22:25:47Z")

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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who dichotomize and those who don’t.

There are two secrets to success in business. The first is, don’t tell anyone everything you know.

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**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-x-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/343722/23 "2006-02-11T00:26:08Z")

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Those who do things in the right order and those who dont. There are two kinds of people in the world.  
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who know you can mark white text to view it, and those who don’t.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-x-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/343722/24 "2006-02-11T00:28:18Z")

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There are two kinds of people in the world: Category 1 and Category B.

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**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-x-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/343722/25 "2006-02-11T01:32:08Z")

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Two kinds of people.

There are those who know haiku,

and those who do not.

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**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-x-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/343722/26 "2006-02-11T01:49:05Z")

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NERD ALERT for the next one:

There are 1 + i kinds of people in the world. Those who are rational and those who aren’t.  
There are hundred kinds of people in the world. Those who over-exaggerate and those who dont.  
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have something proper to do on a Friday night, and me.

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