Jargon Quotes

80 quotes by 70 authors

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another. — Unknown Author
It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and… — Jonathan Swift
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. — Irving Babbitt
If you donâ€™t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject… — Diane Coyle
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. — George Orwell
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on. — Paul Lockhart
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a… — Ray Bradbury
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. — John Stott
Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of… — Helena Rubinstein
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is… — Anne Stevenson
His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique. — Richard Mitchell
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to… — David Lehman
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have… — Peer Steinbruck
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no… — Nina Bawden
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. — Edsger Dijkstra
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it… — Thomas Jefferson
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into… — Thomas Carlyle
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the… — Thomas Szasz
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language… — Katherine Anne Porter
Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings… — William Safire

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