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I've always been afraid that if I address something "To Whom it May Concern," it won't concern anyone.
— Sue Manning
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These proofs probably aren't correct. I 've never proved anything with probability one.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Aug. 9, 1983
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If I get shot in class, nobody will notice.
— Sam Toueg
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May 5, 1983
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What we really need is a building. So all of you graduate, become rich, ...
— Juris Hartmanis
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For numerical analysis, there are theorems that are true, and theorems that are really true.
— John Dennis
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Nov. 7, 1982
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I can fix it, unfortunately. Let's hope it won't work. If it does work, I'm going to have to leave it in, and it's disgusting.
— Alan Demers,
About a terminal switch bug
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Oct. 26, 1982
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Let me write down the natural numbers and then stop.
— Alan Demers
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Oct. 20, 1982
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That's higher than I thought. I guess that means I'm better teacher than I thought I was. Well, I could put it another way - you're not quite as dumb as you look, but I thought you would appreciate it more the other way.
— Juris Hartmanis,
Discussing the average on a prelim
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I used to have a coauthor named Sterns. He hated teaching. Stern's way of explaining something when you said you didn't understand was to repeat exactly what he'd said before at greater volume. So nobody didn't understand anything more than once.
— Juris Hartmanis
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The function asymptotically approaches B, and then passes B.
— Dale Skeen
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Somebody once asked John Hopcroft about the problem of P and NP. He answered: "On Tuesdays, I try to prove that they are equal, on the rest of the week - that they are different." I believe that he has reduced the time to try to show that they are equal to Sunday afternoons.
— Juris Hartmanis
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June 28, 1982
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I've led a sheltered life.
— Fred Schneider
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April 5, 1982
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I have work to do this summer; I can't spend my time conquering the world!
— Bob Harper
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March 24, 1982
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It would be tremendous help if I could talk and write at the same time.
— Alan Demers
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November times December is bottom.
— Jim Hook
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Nov. 19, 1981
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