profQUOTES

"I can't think of any other way to define it, so it seems reasonable."

Willard, PM 432

"If a group is not associative, then we can easily find a counter-example. If we can't find a counter-example, then we just assume it is associative."

Tang, PM 364

"Maybe I shouldn't have chosen such a long cycle ... it violates my principle of being lazy."

Tang, PM 345

"Now think about what your computer's doing at home ... well, if you're running Windows then it's probably crashed."

Buhr, CS 342

"Most of you look like there are other things you'd rather be doing; nevertheless, we'll continue."

Springer, STAT 231

Prof: "People are mathematicians, not because mathematics is useful, but because it is beautiful."
Student: "Booo!"

Szaniszlo, MATH 235

"And how do we do that? Do we just throw up our hands and run screaming into the night?"

Ferguson, C&O 227

(Puts head in front of projector) "Wow, this is a really bright light!"

S. Mann CS 251

(as student leaves for interview) "Tell them all about quicksort, you'll get the job for sure."

Munro, CS 240

"We don't shoot people in this course. That's what they do in other courses."

Munro, CS 240

"If you're playing Trivial Pursuit, and you get a sports question, and you don't know the answer, what do you say? 'Willie Mays!' If you're in CS 240 and you don't know the answer, what do you say? 'Log n!'"

Munro, CS 240

(quoting comment from student who did well on midterm) "The exam was fine, nothing wrong with it... those complaints (made by other students in previous lecture) made no sense..." ("Boo!" sound from audience, prof continues quoting) "I didn't raise it in last lecture cuz I knew there would've been "boo"'s towards me."

Safeyani, MSCI 311

"When you get to your first job, act energetically with lots of new ideas; people have no ways to shut you up so they'll put you in charge of something. That's how you get promoted."

Safeyani, MSCI 311