25 Jargon Quotes for You to Enjoy

I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power. Adrienne Rich

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

Art Science Criticism Aid Only Never Read Readers Understand Literary Literature Dislike Jargon Use Help Function

It's not a coincidence these two industry areas - Silicon Valley and Hollywood - use the same jargon. They share a common language, the language of the creator, of the entrepreneur. Brock Pierce

Entrepreneur Language Valley Silicon Silicon Valley Area Share Industry Same Common Common Language Hollywood Jargon Use Creator Two Coincidence

Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts and the information out quickly enough and succinctly enough and clearly enough. Cherry Jones

Thoughts Sometimes Think Enough Out Some Part Clearly Ideas Quickly Getting Information Jargon Actor Hardest Hardest Part

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate. Christie Hefner

Communication Communicate Try Language Power Control Intimidated Though About Exists Often Either Jargon Captive Even Actually

I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population. Christine Lagarde

You Women Job Value Sense Market More Economic No-Brainer Almost Soon Countries Know Because Makes Korea Italy Germany Improved Essentially Where China Japan Jargon Create Certainly Aging Population Why Growth Bring

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

Business Try Pretentious Impress Our Idiots Jargon Who Using

I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative. David Pogue

Try Entertaining Audience End Curious Representative In The End Jargon Translate Techno

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

Me Corner Monster Eye Admire Beyond Know Around Female Square Green Precisely Going Jargon Pregnant Granite Apparently Why

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

Age Sign Systems Self-Confidence Journalism Surrendering Lack Jargon Dismal

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

Reality Books Lies Outright Prefer Jargon Honest

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

Invent Think Saves Talking Because Times Jargon

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'. Matt Ridley

Buy Time History Book Become Believe Biology Everyone Way Strongly More More And More Layman Bought Genome Read Terrifying Intelligent Want Jargon Molecular Ridden Who Brief Copy

'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

Old Dressed General Constructed Merely New Truly Shiny Up Replete Revolutionary Newly Jargon Theory Largely Incomprehensible

In the jargon of American vaudeville, Professors Frisch and Tinbergen are a 'hard act to follow.' But then, all my life, I have been following such great scholars and policy advisors as these. Paul Samuelson

Life Great My Life All My Life Follow Following Vaudeville Scholars Policy Advisor Been American Jargon Then Act Hard Professors

The best time to catch tribal jargon is when it's not looking. Susie Dent

Time Best Tribal Looking Best Time Catch Jargon

Even if politicians spew confusing, convoluted jargon, these people are still meant to represent me, and the only way that happens is if I stay informed and vote. Tracee Ellis Ross

Me Vote People Politicians Way Stay Only Still Represent Happens Informed Jargon Confusing Convoluted Meant Even

I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.' Angela Rayner

Me School Herself Despite Everything I Was Born Would Born Could Council Write Never Had She Learn Read Because Ready Doing Been Taught Estate Jargon Help Who Now Mum

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

Hallmark Jargon Profession Incomprehensible

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