Being a father
My feeling of responsibility for the safety and well being of my children is so strong, (perhaps pathologically so) that should an asteroid threaten to wipe out all life on earth, I would still hold myself responsible for their fate.
– Boghos L. Artinian
When a lawyer is said to seldom lose a case, there must be something wrong with the legal system, for 50% of cases must be lost and 50% won.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The best of speech is that characterized by brevity and sagacity.
(Translated from an Arabic saying)
– Boghos L. Artinian
My feeling of responsibility for the safety and well-being of my children is so strong, that should an asteroid threaten to wipe out all life on earth, I would still hold myself responsible for their fate.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Do not be proud of your achievements thinking it is the genius in you; even cells have done miracles when we tinkered with their genes.
– Boghos L. Artinian
If you are not prepared to answer a call immediately, do not carry a cell phone.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Some religions thrive on intolerance and hatred. Others, on tolerance and love.
He is a man of principles – the wrong principles.
– Boghos L. Artinian
I’d rather face death as a surprise than die daily dreading my demise.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Time is created by motion and is a measure of it. The whole universe being in motion, it is permeated by time. Movement is in one direction i.e. + and always leads to eventual annihilation of everything. There is no – (negative) movement to reassemble things once broken. So there is no negative time. Time travel is a figment of the imagination.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Primary infidelity is when one cheats on his wife with a girlfriend. Secondary infidelity is when one cheats on his first girlfriend with a second girlfriend. Tertiary infidelity is when one cheats on his second girlfriend with a third girlfriend, and so on.
– Boghos L. Artinian
When someone commits suicide, most of his acquaintances are afflicted with guilt in addition to grief.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The formula for happiness is:
Achievements in life / Expectations from life x Health.
– Boghos L. Artinian
I made my first million Lebanese pounds at the age of forty three when our currency (Lebanese pound) lost 99. 9 % of of its value.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Dogs know three things humans don’t: they smell the recent past, the hidden present, and possibly the impending future. Thus they have every reason to be depressed but hardly any to be paranoid.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Satisfying curiosity is one of the principal reasons why people desire to live forever; just to know what will happen to ones children, grandchildren and the future of ones race; to know when earthlings would contact extraterrestrial intelligences and finally to know how and when life on earth would end.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The undertaker’s hearses often stay in the cemetery overnight to reclaim the fine coffins.
– Boghos L. Artinian
It is a basic human right to be as safe in any building, during an earthquake, as when standing in the middle of an open football field.
– Boghos L. Artinian
A newborn child has no ethnicity and no religion. We have no right to impose these on him.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Spontaneous rhythm and rhyme
Appearing from time to time
Effortlessly in some lines
Unintended to be verse,
Yet prose, they don’t seem to be;
That, to me, is poetry!
– Boghos L. Artinian
Each of us must someday leave the theater of life and disturb the audience as he goes out unsatisfied having been forced to miss the rest of time.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The heart
How cruel and unjust of nature
To entrust the seat of mind and soul
To a lowly pump that tends to fail
Unpredictably, erasing all!
– Boghos L. Artinian
I need not occupy an important chair
To air, of new ideas, my fair share;
I can sit comfortably on thin air
And freely utter what chairmen wouldn’t dare.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Should sexual harassment accusation cases continue to spread at the present rate, non-accused males will start to doubt their virility, and non-harassed females, their femininity!
– Boghos L. Artinian
The purpose of life, to me, is not clear; Nevertheless I enjoy being here!
– Boghos L. Artinian
No sooner Saudi women will receive their driving licenses than the roads will be teeming with driverless cars.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Are you a carnivore? Keep a newborn lamb as a pet in your home for one year, then try to slaughter and eat it.
– Boghos L. Artinian
He suffers from delusions of grandeur; nevertheless he is truly grand!
– Boghos L. Artinian
So often when seen from behind, a female body is so desirable until she turns back.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Any system that is not sensitive to pain would eventually self destruct.
– Boghos L. Artinian
To be or not to be touchable,
In India, is not negotiable;
Untouched mothers breed the untouchable.
Oft touched mothers breed the venerable.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The perceived rate of flow of time is inversely proportional to the speed of chemical and electrical reactions in the brain.
– Boghos L. Artinian
If someday robots will do the fighting for us in wars then, theoretically, killing to win a war will no longer be necessary.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Exorbitant salaries = Embezzlement legalized
– Boghos L. Artinian
Waiting for what? Waiting for the situation in a country, or in the world to improve, will not help an individual improve, because change at a national level is much slower than that at the individual level; At a lower level, for example, so many of your body cells are not allowed to wait, and must change and die before you are cured of an illness.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Since my youth I had been pondering about the purpose of man’s existence and his place in the universe. I have finally come to the following tentative conclusion: man is merely a component in an evolving and self organizing universe. He has nevertheless been allowed to enjoy a relatively short period of freedom before he is totally incorporated in an advanced super-society whereupon he would eventually lose his freedom entirely!
Haven’t his cells done just that before him, or his organelles before his cells, or his molecules before his organelles, or his atoms before his molecules? We are now enjoying our last few centuries of freedom.
– Boghos L. Artinian
A noble endeavor is to till the land
With implements powered only by the hand.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Knowledge is edited by time. Wisdom needs no editors.
– Boghos L. Artinian
All males are potentially sexual predators. The ability to extract the consent of the victims makes all the difference.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The blood-brain barrier is there to protect the central nervous system from toxic materials reaching the central nervous system. Homologically, there will in the future likely be a citizen-government barrier to protect governments from citizens touching the politicians, such as during viral pandemics.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Most overweight people will benefit health wise in the initial stages of a famine; but in the later stages all will eventually succumb to malnutrition.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Virtual fate
We no longer need physically be
Among friends or loved ones for a cup of tea;
Nor at the market place for a shopping spree,
Nor yet at a clinic for an ECG!
All human interactions, sex included,
Can now on nets and webs be concluded.
Thus I am afraid, for most people await
A virtual life and a virtual fate!
– Boghos L. Artinian
In the past you could become wise
And as you grew older philosophize.
Today you can merely grow in size,
Listen, watch and globalize.
– Boghos L. Artinian
If you compare the percentage of bus drivers who died in bus crashes to the percentage of pilots who died in plane crashes you will get a fair idea about the safety of air travel.
– Boghos L. Artinian
My son isn’t working; he is waiting for the ‘universal basic income’ to be implemented.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The frequency of death in a pandemic numbs compassion.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Periodically, a shocking reminder of mortality, can serve to engender the resolve to live and love spontaneously, and to seek gratification instantaneously.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The excitement of children is contagious. So be with them while they watch or do things that no longer excite you!
– Boghos L. Artinian
I like to travel light;
Lighter than air in flight.
The lift medium
To be helium,
And my flight, pure delight.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Even the greatest genius, marooned on an island inhabited by a primitive race, would not be of any practical use to them.
– Boghos L. Artinian
When one becomes a guru in a certain field, even a false statement of his may ultimately become the “truth” solely by the force of his celebrity.
– Boghos L. Artinian
I would rather argue sitting behind my desk than standing in front of another desk.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Strong compassion with impossibility of action is an agonizing situation.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Having painstakingly reduced an idea to a three-word quote: “Chaos breeds opportunities.” I was surprised to find the exact quote said by many on the internet. The lesson: the shorter the quote the more the probability that others have also independently said it.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Some people’s conversations consist mainly of a series of questions that make one tired of being investigated.
– Boghos L. Artinian
When you strike truth, it splatters you with eloquence.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Those aspiring to reach the peaks of affluence must be cautioned against sliding into the pits of effluent.
– Boghos L. Artinian
No sooner a new gadget is invented than a better one replaces it!
– Boghos L. Artinian
When a state provides its citizens with instant access to data and interactivity on the internet, it is only logical and fair that it, in like manner, also be instantly aware of all their whereabouts and intentions.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Facebook has become a global travel show thanks to tourists wielding smart phones.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Some people think they have not lived well enough if they have not flown a few million miles. Others think they have not lived well enough if they have not had a few hundred sexual partners. Others yet, think they have not lived well enough if they have not dined in a few thousand fine restaurants.
– Boghos L. Artinian
We will soon see headless torsos grown in labs for “ethically” harvesting organs for transplantation.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Any act based on faith alone is gambling.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Years of walking under governmental porticoes induced his delusions of grandeur.
– Boghos L. Artinian
A large entourage reduces ones privacy and freedom and also slows his movements.
– Boghos L. Artinian
In space
Man cannot but belong
To embryos of creatures
Yet to be born,
In shapes,
And for purposes, unknown!
– Boghos L. Artinian
I walk my dog every day but have no inkling of whether or not he thinks he is the one walking me.
– Boghos L. Artinian
A once in a lifetime idea slipping away for the lack of paper and pen.
– Boghos L. Artinian
During wars human dignity is trampled upon, death becomes the norm, and survival is permanently depressing.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Unlike the many sages
And professors of today,
I can’t write many pages
When I have little to say!
– Boghos L. Artinian
What travel is so essential that one may consume half a ton of fossil fuel to go somewhere physically except for permanent settlement?
– Boghos L. Artinian
Every single species, except the human, comes, lives on, and leaves the earth without producing a single drop of pollution. Why can’t we do the same?
– Boghos L. Artinian
Earthquakes: Among the natural disasters that afflict humanity, earthquakes stand apart, in that their lethality is largely manmade, as hardly anyone who is outside and away from man-made structures would be injured or killed by it.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The advanced ancient technology used to build inexplicable stone structures on earth was simply not alien, but rather the inhumane use of slaves.
– Boghos L. Artinian
All living organisms are genetically programed to eventually die. Hadn’t they been so, murder would have been far more serious a crime.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Religion is the spiritual intervention in our affairs to keep our society alive, just as medicine is the biological intervention in cellular affairs to keep our bodies alive.
– Boghos L. Artinian
You, who are impatiently waiting to be recognized and honored for your work, have you yourself ever bothered to search for others who deserve to be recognized and honored for their work?
– Boghos L. Artinian
Do not ask a question if its answer would not make a difference.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Eventually, life turns into a race to complete ones self appointed tasks before death.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Immortality of the soul has been preached through the ages to make death friendly to human beings.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The slowing down of all worldly processes around you while your metabolism and time remain flowing at the same speed is the worst predicament you can have.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Faster and faster time slips by,
Though to slow it, in vain we try.
– Boghos L. Artinian
The end of the world will come, I believe;
Our honeymoon is just a small reprieve.
The calculated orbits indicate
That the earth is in for a horrid fate.
The revelations, two thousand years old
Are not mythical but mathematics bold!
– Boghos L. Artinian
Updating an old institution
The dollar, the collar,
The employer, the enslaver,
The incentive, the whip,
The citizen the slave.
– Boghos L. Artinian
You may possess great ideas, but the way you are perceived by society, and the manner in which those ideas issue from your mouth may condemn them to fall dead at your feet.
Depersonalized, they may soar beyond your vicinity and your country to great heights. Finally you may no longer be here to see, when their time has truly come.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Man is now so overwhelmed by information and its processing, that it has become exceedingly difficult, nay impossible, for him to do any thinking of his own. Rather he has become a sort of a “neuron” in a global cerebrum that thinks at a higher level about subjects regarding which he has not the slightest notion.
– Boghos L. Artinian
Capitalism is not an ideal solution because it would, in theory, legally allow a single person or organization to eventually buy out everybody else living on earth. The whole globe having thus become private property, the telltale sign of capitalism, ‘no trespassing’ would arise on every spot on earth.
– Boghos L. Artinian
I do not believe in technology,
Yet I must fly;
Nor do I believe in an afterlife,
Yet I must die!
– Boghos L. Artinian