All kinds Quote by William H. Gass

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

— Erin McKean

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

Language is essentially tribal, so jargon can actually be a really good thing because it unites people.

— Susie Dent

It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.

— James Gleick

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

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

— Edsger Dijkstra

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my…

— Gretchen Rubin

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

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

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute…

— Charles D. Broad

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an…

— Andre Maurois