John Niven Quotes

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

The simplest science book is over my head.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

I asked for more information because I am unable to unscrew the inscrutable.

I have to slow down for some people. In Louisiana, people didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I remember seeing people glaze over. Seeing the moment where they've just completely lost all... They just wait for me to stop talking and then say, 'Yeah.'

Twitch has been very hard for me. It makes me feel so stupid. I don't understand it at all... It's very complicated.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible.

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

This supposed to be yall year? We aint get the memo.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.

Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.

This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in.

I don't know what the f--k I'm talking about with parenting.

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.