Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Ron Kaufman

Industry jargon may not be a language your customer understands.

Theodor Adorno

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

The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

Mason Cooley

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

Michael Crichton

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

Kip Thorne

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

Murray Rothbard

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

Dorothy L. Sayers

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

Stephen Breyer

a hallmark of American justice in the last 30 years.

P. J. O'Rourke

Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.

Annie Jacobsen

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Robert J. Shiller

Each profession has its own toolkit.

Mason Cooley

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Garson Kanin

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

Campbell Scott

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.