profQUOTES

[refering to assignment] "Did anyone get the bonus? 'Cause I couldn't."

Schellenberg, MATH 239

[Student] "How is this theorem useful?"
[Prof] "How is any math useful? Tell you what, in a second I'll show you how you can apply it to choosing a urinal in a bathroom, you can't get more hands-on than that."

Irving, MATH 239

[Student] "Why are we being taught something that does nothing?"
[Prof] "You're not. I'm teaching how to program using something that does nothing!"

Kruk, CS130J

"Let's discuss what we call stuff..."

Kruk, CS130J

"On the board it'll be ugly. On the paper, it'll be ugly. But if you type it, it'll be beautiful!!"

Kruk, CS130J

"Theorem 1.5.2 gave us existence..."

Hewitt, MATH 135J

"x⁴ looks like x², just with a flatter bum... you guys don't respond to anything, do you?!?"

Struthers, MATH 137J

"Some of you will get this right away. Others will worry about this for hours and days and weeks and years."

Hewitt, MATH 135J

"Let me make it a q, so you can't ask me that question."

Hewitt, MATH 135J

"... Somebody comes in my office, coughs in my face, I'll cough on Cyntha's (Struthers) face, and she'll get the cold somebody gave me... understand?"

Hewitt, MATH 135J

"Well, the first one, you can actually do..."

Hewitt, MATH 135J

"We've almost got it... well, almost, we still have 2 blackboards to go..."

Hewitt, MATH 135J

"It's like those weird psychological experiments where they ask what the first word to come to mind is. They say `rutabaga,' and some sexual image comes to mind. The next time they say `rutabaga,' you'll think of some different sexual image."

Vasiga, CS 241

"Not all theorems can be proven by example. It would be nice if we could say that all prime numbers are odd. Two, three, five, and seven are all odd. Therefore nine must be odd."

Vasiga, CS 241