Jargon Quotes
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In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'
— Diane Ackerman
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.
— Kevin DeYoung
Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.
— Mason Cooley
The program operates on facts, and extrapolates from those facts using a complex series of stochastic functions.
— Donna K. Fitch
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
— Kevin Mitnick
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
Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.
— Ian P. Griffin
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.
— Erin McKean
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
— George Orwell
The truth is that you are afraid.''Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean. — Alexandre Dumas
Never let me hear that foolish word again.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.
— Frederick Lenz
Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
— George MacDonald Fraser
I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
— John Maynard Smith
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
— Theodor Adorno
Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
— Mason Cooley
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
— Robert Burns
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
— George Packer
It doesn't require jargon to describe the soul.
— Aporva Kala
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
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say
— Don Watson
There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.
— Ben Aaronovitch
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
— Kip Thorne
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
— Martin H. Fischer
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
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
— Theodor Adorno
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
— Kingman Brewster Jr.
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
— Lewis Carroll
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
— Mario Monti
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
— Michael Crichton
Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large. — Patrick O'Brian
