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You can't hide in a crowd of two.
— Edward Tremel,
Systems Lunch Talk
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We currently trust refrigerators.
— Edward Tremel,
with regards to household devices snooping on your power meter.
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I don't think this is a penis
— Mike George,
looking at an OS prelim with a phallic drawing at the back of exam
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Windows is an operating system for people who make PowerPoints.
— Mike George
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I want to be sure we finish, so I'm not going to worry about termination.
— David Gries,
Proving the correctness of a loop, with only a few minutes remaining in the lecture.
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Nov. 1, 2004
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I'll show you in a minute why this is a very stupid result.
— Andrew Yao
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It's kind of leisure reading.
— John Hopcroft,
About the first 60 pages of Aho, Hopcroft and Ullman
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Why would I want to have fun?
— Prof. DNM,
after student presenting project said "this app is for entertainment and fun"
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Dexter: It's called a "Kludge"
Yizhou: ...... ok.
Andrew: You're dating yourself, Dexter
— Dexter Kozen, Yizhou, and Andrew Myers,
Helping Yizhou describe an anti-pattern during his B exam
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That last glitch in the schedule was intentionally designed to illustrate Isaac Sheff's research on which failures can be tolerated.
— Bobby Kleinberg,
explaining confusion in the commencement presentation schedule
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I think that, as a community, PL people have a moral responsibility to step in and say "No, you're having fun wrong!"
— Michael Roberts,
On music programming languages
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It's only a competition if I win. That's the very definition of a competition.
— Fabian Muehlboeck,
Comparing himself to machine learning researchers
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"Now there's a lot of fuss about this notion of universality of Turing machines..."
— Fred Schneider,
Starting a question during colloquium
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There's a language out there that's "useful". (lamenting) We have to be useful these days.
— Glynn Winskell,
discussing the difficulties of modern theory research
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You can cook! What can I do? I can't differentiate a potato
— Saksham Agarwal,
in a discussion about skill usefulness
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