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jargon brevity aim
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. Edsger Dijkstra
jargon seldom stands
Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. George MacDonald Fraser
jargon use ass
Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass. David Ogilvy
jargon means meet time travel
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. Kip Thorne
jargon world academic
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. Michael Crichton
jargon determined individual
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
jargon language authenticity
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
jargon hallmark profession
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. Kingman Brewster, Jr.
jargon language
Jargon: any technical language we do not understand. Mason Cooley
means names people science whenever
Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands. Dee Boersma
means share slowing
When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.
means miss
When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball. Maria Sharapova
means prices rarely secondary work
My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low. Tracey Emin
means player
To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop. Tim Finchem
means
I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
means
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either. James J. Gibson
means police sit
We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.
means next propose range rifle trail year
We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end. Tom Reilly
meet possible second visual walks
When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium. Ridley Scott
meets product require service
The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations. Paul Hewitt
meets readers written
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.' E. L. Konigsburg
meet
We did look at the site. It doesn't meet our criteria.
meeting naive period persuasion raise time
Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't. John Key
meetings attraction
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God Aiden Wilson Tozer
meeting people
We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.
meet people
We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day. Omar Epps
meetings staff year
We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.
time math science
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. Carl Friedrich Gauss
time writing math
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
time time-management enough
There's time enough, but none to spare. Charles W. Chesnutt
time dark mind
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle. Charles de Lint
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
travel way next
Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord." Carol Leifer
travel law tolerance
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity. Agnes Repplier
travel children thinking
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
travel dining complaining
The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.
travel traveler
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
travel blessing trials
it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
travel mind desire
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
travel light comfort
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.
travel distance needs
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. Alan Turing