Jargon Quotes

80 Jargon quotes by 70 unique authors

[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
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own… — Nancy Pearcey
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those… — Harold Rosenberg
The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those… — John Welch
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric… — R. D. Laing
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an… — Theo James
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology. — Kevin DeYoung
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that… — Richard Rosen
Never let me hear that foolish word again. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. — Robert Burns
I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one… — Clement Greenberg

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