I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon… — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope,… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When corporate executives get really excited, they leverage their learnings against comprehension to revolutionize English.” — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?' — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
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