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C.G. Jung
“Generally certain symptoms appear, among them a peculiar use of language: one wants to speak forcefully in order to impress one's opponent, so one employs a special, "bombastic" style full of neologisms which might be described as "power-words." This symptom is observable not only in the psychiatric clinic but also among certain modern philosophers, and, above all, whenever anything unworthy of belief has to be insisted on in the teeth of inner resistance: the language swells up, overreaches itself, sprouts grotesque words distinguished only by their needless complexity. The word is charged with the task of achieving what cannot be done by honest means.”
― C.G. Jung, Alchemical Studies

“I visited blathernodes, soaked myself in other people's opinions.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

Ilze Falb
“Мы присним ему счастливую жизнь. Лучше так, чем оставить его в суровой темноте.”
― Ilze Falb, Un rêve heureux

Neal Stephenson
“... It would seem the natural and obvious step, then, to capitalize on this, by creating, or providing a facility for the creation of, numinous objects of mineral origin."
"NOMOs," coined Pluto.
D-squared looked taken aback until he got it.
Richard put in, "Among geeks, the cool-soundingness of the acronym is more important than the existence of what it refers to.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde