Jargon famous quotes

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
-- Andre Maurois

#Simple #Jargon #Philosopher

We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.
-- Camille Paglia

#Art #Mind #Jargon

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 I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.
-- Clement Greenberg

#Art #Numbers #Jargon

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.
-- Corinne Maier

#Business #Jargon #Modern

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
-- David Ogilvy

#Business #Trying #Jargon

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Jargon #Aim #Brevity

To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade.
-- G. Edward Griffin

#Government #Benefits #Jargon

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
-- George Packer

#Self Confidence #Age #Jargon

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 beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.
-- Helena Rubinstein

#Simple #Simplicity #Jargon

Never let me hear that foolish word again.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Jargon #Foolish #Let Me

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

#Thinking #Talking #Jargon

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.
-- Josephine Tey

#Use #Jargon #Speech

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.
-- Kevin DeYoung

#Psychology #Mediocrity #Jargon

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Jargon #Hallmark #Profession

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon
-- Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

#Envelopes #Way #Jargon

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 with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.
-- Murray Rothbard

#Jargon #Revolutionary #Theory

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 sake.
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Literature #Jargon #Sake

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.
-- Pierre Hadot

#Art #Philosophy #Jargon

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

#Mind #Use #Jargon

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 Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.
-- Theo James

#New York #Real #Jargon

What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.
-- Theodor Adorno

#Jargon #Determined #Individual

Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.
-- Wendy Kaminer

#Brain #Left Brain #Jargon

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 as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.
-- William Safire

#Taken #Jargon #Arcane

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
-- William Zinsser

#Writing #Jargon #Disease

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say
-- Don Watson

#Trying #Jargon #Figures

I would not be able to retain all the information, all the medical jargon these doctors do. I'm not really intelligent enough is what I'm saying.
-- Justin Chambers

#Intelligent #Doctors #Jargon