Buzzwords Quotes

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.'

If a term becomes too popular, its irritant value is ramped up. The impulse is then to replace it with something else.

[ Tucker Carlson] thought that was the paramount example of discrimination and bigotry and all of these buzzwords these people use.

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.

We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling us what the next hit will be, the next style, the next cool.

The best way we have to ensure that consumers are fairly represented in today's confusing world of buzzwords and rapidly evolving technologies is to communicate openly with others and tap into the social and networking resources that the Web itself provides us all.

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

There are certain catchwords which have a marvelous charm to calm the breast political, a magic power to levitate the mind captivated by them, out of the regions of mere argument and recognition of facts. Such a hold do these words and the deified abstractions they cover have on the average man of the nineteenth century, that they and they alone are worshipped as the ultimate manifestation of goodness, beauty, and truth. To be opposed to these abstractions is to be condemned as blasphemous against the first principles of rectitude, moral and political.

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

I'm kind of over people using the word 'bae'. Let's get rid of that.

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace."

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

The swirl of their buzzwords—“access,” “stigma,” “progressive,” “diversity,” “crisis,” etc.—shows a discernible pattern. What these innumerable buzzwords have in common is that they either (1) preempt issues rather than debate them, (2) set the anointed and the benighted on different moral and intellectual planes, or (3) evade the issue of personal responsibility.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.

Out there you might say there is a moral majority and if you could put them together …

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

I used to work in an office in New York for this terrible company, and we used to have staff meetings, and I would just count how many times the boss would use the phrase "in terms of." And he would say it like 30 or 40 times. And sometimes he would just say it. He'd be like, "Uhh, in terms of, how are we doing with that?" I realized nobody knows what they're talking about. Everyone's bullshitting. Maybe not everybody, but certainly a lot of people.