mathNEWS Issue 110.3: Friday, June 12, 2009

profQUOTES

One of the dangers of C++ is that you can get arbitrarily silly in your abstractions.

McCool, CS 488

It's all about the pretty pictures.

McCool, CS 488

We're going to put your pictures in our gallery. Maybe. If your project doesn't suck.

McCool, CS 488

My office is DC... uh... something. Well, it's some combination of these digits.

Ben-David, CS 489

The more you slow me down, the less material there will be on the final.

Ben-David, CS 489

I'd better stop ppunning.

Hoffman, PMATH 360

Every papaya inside this amoeba is tasty, and every papaya outside this amoeba is not tasty.

Ben-David, CS 489

We don't know what the distribution of pretty girls is in the universe.

Ben-David, CS 489

We talked about that last time. At least that's what I thought I was talking about.

Ben-David, CS 489

After 50, no pickup line will help you.

Ben-David, CS 489

Those of you that hate stats already dropped the course. And now I'll make the rest of you drop the course.

Ben-David, CS 489

I don't walk towards you and say Oh my god! You're getting bigger and bigger!

Greenaway, PSYCH 101

I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try your call again.

Orchard, CS 370

You have Google. Why spend $150 on a textbook?

Shen, ECE 418

Now this looks wronger...

Lopez-Ortiz, CS 240

Generally speaking the block decomposition is more general.

Haxell, MATH 239

How many people think yes? [a few hands go up]
How many people think no? [no hands go up]
The rest of you are not thinking.

Haxell, MATH 239



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