Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

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.

David Ogilvy

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

Kip Thorne

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

Michael Crichton

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

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.

Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Aaron Tveit

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Charlotte Bronte

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlie Haden

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Daniels

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Alan Sugar

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

Jim Fiore

We have phenomenal resources, we put a half-million into new lockers, we're building a weight room and new academic center, ... We are doing a lot of the foundation work to get us prepared.

Kenneth Womack

When I figured out this was the first broad-based academic activity to do with Bruce, I was kind of shocked.

Andrew Joudrey

When I visited Wisconsin, I fell in love with the place. I liked the academics and the fact it had Big Ten sports. So I called Maine because I didn't want them to waste their money on me.

Mykal Riley

When I visited, I liked the coaches and all the players. I like the academic programs they have, too.

Sarah Steele

Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future.

Abby Wambach

My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

Michael Kelly

When I was an undergraduate 30 years ago, the only role model was to become an academic like the people teaching us.

Ed Speleers

Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.