Just like "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" it'll only make sense and click once you already understand the concept, at least the haske

Just like "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" it'll only make sense and click once you already understand the concept, at least the haskell one was satirical. Those simple phrases are I admit a fun experiment to see how much you can compact concepts, sometimes it is actually useful to come up with new words to represent common phenomenons in a given field to use with the people that already know of the concepts(hence why you pretty much need to "expand" almost every couple words of the phrase for the laymen to understand). There is value in doing this expansion to teach the laymen, and the author does make the expansion somewhat in his post to be fair.