Jargon Quotes

80 Jargon quotes by 70 unique authors

Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet. — Wendy Kaminer
People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They become… — Frederick Lenz
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous… — Thomas Paine
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. — George Packer
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. — Kevin Mitnick
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy
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
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye… — Ezra Pound
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to… — Zadie Smith
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and… — Brennan Manning
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think… — C.S. Lewis
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a… — George Orwell
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. — Michael Crichton
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off… — Milan Kundera
Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond where we bounce… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of… — Bill Bryson
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness.… — Pema Chodron
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete… — Murray Rothbard
Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God… — Michael Shermer
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all… — John Drane
I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that. — Gautam Adani
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound… — Barry Ritholtz
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. — Martin H Fischer
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon. — Mario Monti

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