Curriculum Quote by Paul Lockhart

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

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

— Henri Poincare

Maths is the language of science.

— Rachel Riley

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

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

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

— Anonymous

The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people.

— Simon Singh

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

— Edward Kasner

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

— Leo Tolstoy

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