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I should never do things carefully.
— John Hopcroft,
After messing up a proof by forgetting how to use induction
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Gries: ... "dereferencing" and "ref-referencing"? ... "anti-dereferencing"? ...
Student: How about "referencing"?
Gries: That's too simple.
— David Gries
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We're trying very hard to make sure that this Christmas tree isn't anti-semantic.
— Diane Duke
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Gries: Why don't you just show us the whole slide?
Corky: Can't quarrel with God.
— Corky Cartwright
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One thing I like to ignore is details.
— John Hopcroft
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Somebody should warn me when we get to the end of class by walking out, or I'll tend to keep on talking.
— John Hopcroft
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Not everything I say is correct. It's correct modulo the little details you're going to have to worry about.
— John Hopcroft
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I don't have a proof that this is all you need... but in practice this is all you need
— Fred Schneider,
explaining the necessary conditions for thread-safe code in CS 4410
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It said it's safe and it was wrapped in plastic, what more do you want?!
— Andrew Myers,
Explaining how we should all definitely trust defense contractor handout goodies.
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The tune you want to knob is...
— Rolph Recto,
Discussing formal methods in great works of pl
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The root of all evil is objects.
— Greg Morrisett,
arguing for functional paradigms
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MIT is kind of an output-only device.
— Andrew Myers,
on the propagation of terminology concerning consistency models
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...and that's when the males do their mating ritual ... like the dance from the Happy Feet documentary
— Haym Hirsh,
a discussion regarding the collective intelligence of penguins taking turns on the outside when gathering together to keep warm in subarctic climate
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Board Games.
Brown Bag.
Coke...that's a beverage...
— Fred Schneider,
thanking the different Czars for their service
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I'm never going to get this wrong; I'm never going to get this right.
— Andrew Hirsch,
pronouns for mushrooms
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