Jargon Quotes

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

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 going around a square corner.

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, the growing use of professional jargon.

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

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.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

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

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.