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Honesty is frustrating. Honestly, honesty is overrated.— Laure Thompson, working on cryptography, proving zero knowledge · Dec. 8, 2014 · Permalink
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"We have three days. That's infinity time."— Kavita Bala, on the Thursday before grant proposal due next Monday · Nov. 6, 2014 · Permalink
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I have to tie my shoe. In rugby, you say "minute, please". Actually you usually say that after you've been punched in the face.— Dexter Kozen · Nov. 7, 2006 · Permalink
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If you're trying to glue some junk together to build a glued-together junky thing, then Windows is the way to go.— Ken Birman, Comment made in a CS414 lecture · Nov. 23, 2004 · Permalink
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Routing is a special case, 'cause it's the bottom turtle.— Paul Francis, Commenting on routing as a peer-to-peer problem · May 6, 2004 · Permalink
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— Nate Nystrom · April 30, 2004 · Permalink
Andrew (to Michael): Are you a plant [to ask questions during
this talk]?Nate: He's more like a mold...
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Your gun, your foot.— Fred Schneider · March 18, 2004 · Permalink
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Here there is absolutely nothing happening, so it has to be golf.— Yann LeCun, On image classification. · Feb. 27, 2004 · Permalink
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The purpose of this is for Alice and Bob to have enough knives to do what they want to do for the rest of this dance.— Fred Schneider, In a discussion of the SSL protocol. · Feb. 24, 2004 · Permalink
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"How fast I run depends on how loaded I am."— Joe Halpern, Giving a justification for asychronous message-passing systems · Oct. 7, 2003 · Permalink
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Obviously, this stronger statement is stronger than the weaker one.— Eva Tardos, On the use of strong statements in induction proofs, especially in amortized analysis. · Sept. 22, 2003 · Permalink
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My notes say this is trivial, so let's stare at it and see why it's trivial... Yeah, it's trivial.— Dexter Kozen, Why proving a lemma on quasi-orders, in CS 686. · April 2, 2003 · Permalink
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Why is it that any time I mention anything remotely connected to the lambda calculus everyone starts smirking?— Dexter Kozen · 2001 · Permalink
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Well, Gries' thesis was trivial.— Charlie Van Loan · Aug. 29, 1985 · Permalink
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Hartmanis: Should you quote me, repeat only the reasonable things I say.— Juris Hartmanis · Feb. 22, 1983 · Permalink
Conway: I think I remember one back in '76.