Jargon Quote by Anonymous

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

— Erin McKean

Language is essentially tribal, so jargon can actually be a really good thing because it unites people.

— Susie Dent

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

— Edsger Dijkstra

People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They…

— Frederick Lenz

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity…

— David Lehman

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

— Mason Cooley

“I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it.…

— Roger Ebert

People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost…

— Barry Ritholtz

Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly…

— Pharrell Williams

I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I…

— William H. Gass