Quotes and Sayings about Jargon

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
- Eric Bentley
(Related: Age, Ideas, Language, Principles)

"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."
- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
(Related: Jargon, Profession)

"Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon."
- Edsger Dijkstra
(Related: Brevity, Jargon)

"You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Jargon, Talk)

"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
- David Ogilvy
(Related: Business, Idiots, 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."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Eye, Jargon)

"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Books, Jargon, Lies, Reality)

"I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another."
- John M. Smith
(Related: Jargon, Talking)

"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."
- Anne Stevenson
(Related: Art, Science, Criticism, Help, Jargon, Literary, Literature)