Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The program operates on facts, and extrapolates from those facts using a complex series of stochastic functions.” — Donna K. Fitch Copy Share Image
His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a… — Richard Mitchell 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
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be… — Matt Ridley 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
My issue with all sort of social justice stuff and leftie stuff, and I would put myself on a social justice leftie… — Limmy Copy Share Image
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is… — John Drane Copy Share Image
A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and… — Milan Kundera 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
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
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches… — Theo James 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
It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I… — Kelly McCreary 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
To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We can't really do any improv on 'The Big Bang' because we don't understand a lot of what the dialogue means to… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser 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
To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
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