Words matter. These are the best Terminology Quotes from famous people such as Stephen Jay Gould, Paul Gilbert, John Ratcliffe, Peter Hammill, Claude Nicollier, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
There is a basic language of music that I think is important for communicating with other musicians – just the kind of terminology that might make it easier to describe your ideas to the other guys in your band.
Having consumed election influence intelligence across various analytic communities, it is clear to me that different groups of analysts who focus on election threats from different countries are using different terminology to communicate the same malign actions.
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology.
Labeling someone as an ‘-ist’ who believes in an ‘-ism’ because of the person’s policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style name-calling, cloaked in political terminology.
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
All this terminology of rankings – forcing rankings along some distribution curve or whatever – we’re done with that.
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can’t quite follow you.
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one’s nose, taking shortcuts.
I don’t like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.
With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.
As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a ‘Near Great’ even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.
Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.
Observe, orient, decide, act. It’s fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.
We’re so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.
That really makes you feel good when guys are using some of your terminology and some of your plays in a different country.
I don’t use any of the terminology like ‘left wing’ and ‘right wing.’ I use language like ‘godly’ and ‘holiness.’
If you call ‘religious’ a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.
I am an Air Force brat – that’s the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.
There should not be a micro-managing of terminology with the Library of Congress.
That’s one of the things that concerns me – vegan steak or whatever. It is a hard terminology thing, because what are you eating? With beef you know it’s a piece of beef.
When you change defenses, it’s the same thing a lot of times. But different terminology means different things in that new defense. So you have to get accustomed to that. You have to study. Get in your books and pay attention.
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
Actually shooting a 3-D movie is not different at all than making a 2-D one. You never really notice that you’re making a 3-D movie. The terminology used around the set is a little bit different, but other than that, you’d never know.
I do not like to use the term ‘Free-to-play.’ I have come to realize that there is a degree of insincerity to consumers with this terminology, since so-called ‘Free-to-play’ should be referred to more accurately as ‘Free-to-start.’
When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary – it’s this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
I’m always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up the first page, and it’s full of all these made-up words.
