Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra
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
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
John M. Smith
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy
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
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
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
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
Martin H. Fischer
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