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Mike: Does anyone know on what platform Oracle runs the best?
Ken: An old Sun Microsystems machine?
Mike: A 35mm slide projector.
— Mike Stonebraker,
after discussing Oracle's commitment to supporting legacy code
Dec. 3, 2015
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Formally, multiplication takes bitstrings as inputs, but we're not Neanderthals, so let's instead say that multiplication takes numbers as inputs.
— Noah SD,
when giving an example of a one-way function in CS 4830 lecture
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Sept. 3, 2024
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My wife still uses Emacs, which is the most contentious point in our marriage.
— Kilian Weinberger,
after stating that the first chatbot ELIZA shipped with Emacs
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Aug. 29, 2024
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We use this thing called Ed Discussions. I don't know why they call it that. When you look it up online you get all sorts of wrong results.
— Anonymous Professor,
inaugural TA meeting
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Aug. 21, 2024
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We should just shut down CMS .... just give up
— Noah Schiff, CMSX team lead,
when looking at the CMSX codebase
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April 18, 2024
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I've seen Zootopia
— Marten van Schijndel,
being a millenial
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March 19, 2024
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Do I have to tell you what a category is? I'm gonna tell you what a category is.
— Dexter Kozen,
Kleene Algebra Lecture, introducing adjunctions
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Feb. 15, 2024
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live, laugh, love DPD
— Kayla Sprayberry,
moments of love from Intro to Digital Product Design
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Feb. 8, 2024
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I know of no logic, except my own.
— Shir Cohen,
when presented with a temporal logic formula.
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Oct. 23, 2023
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"I only write segfault free code"
— Suraaj Sureshkannan,
A naive junior grad student.
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Oct. 1, 2023
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I'm gonna be super corporate and eat a salad.
— Albert Gong,
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Sept. 12, 2023
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I’m nothing if not a square
— Spencer Van Koevering
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Sept. 10, 2023
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I think most people are bad presenters - not because they're terrible human beings, but ... wait.
— Raunak Kumar,
discussing presentation styles
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Sept. 7, 2023
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