Famous Quotes & Sayings

George MacDonald Fraser

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

Edsger Dijkstra

Aim for brevity while avoiding 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.

Michael Crichton

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

Mason Cooley

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

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.

Arnold Schoenberg

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

Bill Hicks

Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Al Goldstein

The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.

Bill Hicks

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Beleive or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Bill Hicks

We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Jane Fonda

I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

Aldous Huxley

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Walter Benjamin

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

E. F. Schumacher

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

M. Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Bo Burnham

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Brian Greene

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.