profQUOTES

"Am I QED? I think it's QED."

Nica, PMATH 351

"I had my page upside down. I wonder if I could still give the lecture if I continued to hold the page this way."

Nica, PMATH 351

"There will be a problem in the homework that will refer to the definition I'm going to give five minutes from now ... I won't tell you which problem because that would be like giving away the end of a movie."

Nica, PMATH 351

"Maybe if you cross your eyes and stand on your head, you'll think it's obvious."

Dickey, PMATH 360

"I think one should be able to think of higher things and not get one's elbows dirty."

Dickey, PMATH 360

"He was in an animal up to his armpits ... That's how I feel sometimes dealing with operating systems."

Dickey, PMATH 360

"My mind goes at a different speed than my chalk. I'm not saying it's faster or slower ... it's just at a different speed.

Geelen, C&O 350

"One question you might ask: 'If you met an LP on the street, how would you know it's non-degenerate?'"

Geelen, C&O 350

"And now I'm going to use multi-media." (goes for overhead) "This is very high-tech for me."

Geelen, C&O 350

"I told my kids a matrix is just an array of numbers, it has nothing to do with Keanu Reeves."

Liu, PHYS 363

[referring to Maupertuis' Principle of Least Action] "one of the theories was based on a theological argument. A certain quantity had to be minimized because of the 'wisdom of God.' You can not do that on your exam!"

Liu, PHYS 363