Karn Quotes & Sayings

stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can put out. "Stupidity" is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social denigration of the information she or he puts out, commits him or herself to taking in no more information than she or he can put out. (Not to be confused with ignorance, or lack of data.) Since such a situation is impossible to achieve because of the nature of mind/perception itself in its relation to the functioning body, a continuing downward spiral of functionality and/or informative dissemination results,' and he understood why! 'The process, however, can be reversed,' the voice continued, 'at any time. — Samuel R. Delany

All the names of the ultimate truth are
given by human beings. Whether you call it Allah or God or Jehovah or Rama or Krishna,
these names are given by human beings and hence they cannot be eternal. You are playing
one sided game. The truth has nothing to do with these names. — Rahul Karn

All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me ... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is ... my white plume. — Edmond Rostand

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people. — Richard Karn

If your life itself is not a message then no matter what you preach, your preaching will become a hypocrisy. — Rahul Karn

I don't like to be away from my family for long periods. — Richard Karn

It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone. — Richard Karn

Perfectionists are neurotic people. The world is perfectly beautiful in its imperfection. — Rahul Karn

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption. — Phil Karn

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous. — Richard Karn

When you give suggestion, you become a Guru, you enjoy becoming superior to the poor chap. This makes other feel inferior. And it is against one's ego to feel inferior to someone. This is why a meditator gives suggestion only when it is utmost necessary or the other person specifically seeks his suggestion. — Rahul Karn

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. — Thomas Merton

May it never be a footprint that you shall ever say maybe in May. May it instead be a footprint that you shall do your best and rest the rest! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this. — Richard Karn

My love," she said, "I could never betray you. You betray yourself, but I will only ever bring you back. — Anne Elisabeth Stengl

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones! — Keith Richards

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct. — Robert Rodriguez

Life becomes easy for people who respond to the demands of life. — Sunday Adelaja

Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can. — John Dyer Baizley

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not. — William Shakespeare

The average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies — George Orwell

The ballot is the only safety. — Frederick Douglass

'National Security' is the root password to the Constitution. — Phil Karn

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things. — Phil Karn

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me. — Muhammad Ali

Either lead or follow, but please don't block the road for those who move forward — Phil Karn

You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I had almost said every Syllable and every Letter is worth Studying.
In Company with Sallust, Cicero, Tacitus and Livy, you will learn Wisdom and Virtue. You will see them represented, with all the Charms which Language and Imagination can exhibit, and Vice and Folly painted in all their Deformity and Horror.
You will ever remember that all the End of study is to make you a good Man and a useful Citizen. - This will ever be the Sum total of the Advice of your affectionate Father,
John Adams — John Adams