People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

- Erin McKean

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

- John Maynard Smith

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

'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.

- Murray Rothbard

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

- Stephen Jay Gould