Complicated Quote by Marjorie Garber

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

— Anonymous

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

— Erin McKean

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

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

— Mason Cooley

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon…

— Theodor Adorno

Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line…

— Constance Hale

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

— Ramesh S Balsekar

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

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

“Some analogies are so useful that they don’t merely shed light on a concept, they actually become platforms for novel thinking. For example, the…

— Chip Heath