profQUOTES

"My chalk seems to have grown asymptotically small."

Verstraete, MATH 239

"I'm glad you're here, I'm trying to help you."

Greenaway, PSYCH 101

"If you've ever read Knuth, you know that you need to sit down and read it [The Art of Computer Programming] very carefully, and then ask someone what the hell he's talking about."

Vasiga, CS 240

"For 1400 years, [Ptolemy] was what you people would call 'The Man'"

Crippin, C&O 480

[After wrestling with basic algebra for 5 minutes]
"It really hurts to be so dumb"

Crippin, C&O 480

"That Panjer is a smart guy"

Cai, ACTSC 431

"Don't get too hung up on your model."

Steiner, STAT 231

"All models are wrong, but some are useful."

Steiner, quoting Box, STAT 231

"There is someone that everyone loves. And it's Raymond."

Van Beek, CS 245

"So what we want to do... or what I want to do, you may not."

Van Beek, CS 245

"Well, the next topic is greedy algorithms, so I'm trying to show you how bad it is to be greedy."

Zima, CS 341

"You cannot have breakfast and CS 341 class... oh wait you can."

Zima, CS 341

"No, I don't want speech recognition! Look what it's done!"

Zima, CS 341

"A view is also called a virtual table because it is a virtual table."

Chan, CS 448

[on determining interest rate from an annuity]
"When we are writing a program to solve this problem, it is better for the program to crash than entering an infinite loop."

Redekop, ECON 371

[reading a group contract clause]
"We will not steal each others boy/girlfriends"

Malleck, ECON 220

[Acrobat starts installing speech recognition]
"NO! I don't want speech recognition! Some student will come in here, frustrated, after the midterm and yell out "FORMAT C: ENTER!"

Zima, CS 341

"If I'm right, your textbook proves this just for 3X3 matrices. DO NOT DO THAT! ... That drives me nuts ..."

Wolczuk, MATH 136

Student: "How do you pronounce your name?"
Prof: "Dan"

Wolczuk, MATH 136

Student: "Can you visualize R⁶?"
Prof: "No, I only go up to R⁵"
[pause]
Prof: "That was a joke ..."

Wolczuk, MATH 136

"This is math. We always want to do 'the thing'"

Wolczuk, MATH 136

"This is called the parametric vector form. And it's not because you need to call the paramedics whenever you use it."

Wolczuk, MATH 136

"Ugh. How do I want to say this... Oh: I'm clever!"

Wolczuk, MATH 136

"Sometimes when I can't spell a word, I come up with synominomyms to use instead that I can spell. I'm clever that way."

Wolczuk, MATH 136

"And if any of you use this method, I will cry."

Wolczuk, MATH 136

"The difficult proofs in this course are not going to be the hard proofs, they're going to be the easy proofs where you look at it and go, 'Uh, Duh!'"

Wolczuk, MATH 135