9 Quotes on Jargon

• 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.

  Author: Anne Stevenson

• I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

  Author: John Smith

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

  Author: Jean Rostand

• 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.

  Author: Ezra Pound

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

  Author: David Ogilvy

• You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

  Author: Martin Fischer

• Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

  Author: Edsger Dijkstra

• Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

  Author: Kingman Brewster, Jr.

• 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.

  Author: Irving Babbitt

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