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I've got to stop working out -- I'm breaking all the chalk.
— Dexter Kozen,
CS 686
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The C union type isn't very sound, which good C programmers exploit all the time.
— Andrew Myers,
CS 611
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Talking to me is about as useful as having your head bashed in by strangers.
— Jed Liu
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The Pentium is a lot like the MIPS, only incredibly brain damaged.
— Andrew Myers,
CS 412
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After a while, you have to start commenting about the types. Why not tell the compiler too and let it share in the joke.
— Andrew Myers,
on type inference
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C++ is a Swiss army knife of a language... there's many ways to cut yourself.
— Andrew Myers,
CS 412
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This course is about astronomy -- we have to think globally.
— Sergei Artemov,
CS 486
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You cannot be taxed for polynomial time. Everyone has a right to polynomial computation. That is one of the basic rights that you have.
— Sylvio Micali
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You have to use words, and unfortunately all the good ones are used up.
— Joel Moses
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The fact that we don't have to deal with people is an advantage.
— Joel Moses
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Dwork: I can be bribed to be enthusiastic.
Birman: Now that we've established that, what's your price?
— Cynthia Dwork
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You need a mathematical induction for small numbers that works for a little bit and then peters out.
— Juris Hartmanis
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The proof is going to be by induction because every proof's by induction.
— Jim Hook
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I'll leave it as an exercise. Or you can look in Knuth and find it as an exercise there.
— John Gilbert
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Is there any rigorous definition of a Mandelbrot set or is it as undefined as Mandelbrot himself? Doesn't he look a lot like a Mandelbrot set?
— Juris Hartmanis
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