Barry Ritholtz Quotes

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

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

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

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'

There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases.

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

They're like, 'Oh, you did a...' and I'm like, 'I did a what?' No, I flipped twice. I twisted twice. They go, 'It's called a...' and I'm like, 'Why do I need to know that? I just need to go and do that.'

I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don't know and them laughing at me or thinking it's awful, but for the most part, people I've encountered just see that I'm trying, and they're helpful. It's helpful to me to communicate with people.

By the time buzzwords appear in the popular press, there's probably a bunch of us in the development trenches pulling out our hair and weeping.

My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I know talk.

I don't speak a lot of English, of course, but I do try to express myself, and usually, I can get across to people what I am trying to say.

When I go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a great hobby.

Of course it's always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable.

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

I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I don't speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, "You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish."

Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.

I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."

To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade.

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.