quotes about Jargon
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.
-- Corinne MaierSource : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.13, Vintage
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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
-- David Ogilvy -
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 -
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
-- George PackerSource : "Telling Stories About the Future of Journalism" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.
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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 -
Never let me hear that foolish word again.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau -
I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
-- John M. Smith -
It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.
-- Josephine TeySource : Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
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We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.
-- Kevin DeYoung -
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.Source : Address to the British Institute of Management, December 13, 1977.
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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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 HadotSource : "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 272), 2001.
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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 -
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 JamesSource : "From Turkish Corpse to New York Cop" by Jeremy Egner, www.nytimes.com. February 15, 2013.
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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 seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.
-- Wendy Kaminer -
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 -
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
-- William ZinsserSource : William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins
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Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say
-- Don Watson -
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