#jargon

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

— David Ogilvy

#idiots #impress #infested #jargon #our

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

#apparently #around #beyond #corner #eye

He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true' or 'false', but as 'academic' or practical', 'outworn' or 'contemporary', 'conventional' or 'ruthless'. Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong, or stark, or courageous--that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#jargon #philosophy #courage

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#colour #exposure #isolation #jargon #life

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

#bright #genuine #ideas #instead #jargon

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. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#before #ever #growing #jargon #most

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. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#associated #being #comes #excellence #far

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#incomprehensible #jargon #profession

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. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#back #called #country #creditors #dates

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoiding #brevity #jargon #while