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So there will be lots of deans there. Someone should set off a bomb or something.
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The books I should be writing are written by John Hopcroft.
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The recursion theorem is just like tennis. Unless you're exposed to it at age five, you'll never become world class.
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I'm explaining this as though it were a well-known technique, but in fact I just invented it.
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I'm running out of time, so I'm going to use very short variable names.
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A rendez-vous monitor, a.k.a. a bordello ...
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So I shift by either 2 or 2, so of course I shift by 2, and I have matched bananas.
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You can grasp infinity easily, but how can you grasp 245?
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I should never do things carefully.
— John Hopcroft,
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I'll have you know I spent 13 hours preparing this lecture - so nobody had better sleep.
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This is obvious to an educated person.
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Demers: Here is the promised Fast Fourier Transform example. It worked for the two examples I tried, so I'm fairly sure it's correct.
Student: Proof by exhaustive testing?
Demers: Well, it sure exhausted me.
— Alan Demers
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1 is generally a happy number. It doesn't care what you do with it.
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After we solve the reliable software problem, we must solve the reliable lecture problem.
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Two sets of half size - 1/4 being approximately 1/2.
— John Hopcroft
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