-
Voting:
-
8
+
I took a Lattice Algorithms course, so I know how to make a lattice crust.
— Lucy Li,
while making apple pie
·
April 28, 2019
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
8
+
Wait, wait. Killian! I need someone whose stories are stupider than mine.
— Soumya Basu
·
March 26, 2019
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
8
+
Kids these days. I remember waiting for a long time to download the original Wolfenstein 3D over a 56Kb dialup line… it was 700kb!
— Nate Foster,
when a student asks for a larger project upload size limit on CMS
·
May 15, 2018
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
8
+
You can pour all the money you want into JavaScript and it's still a badly-designed language.
— Yaron Minsky,
on why money can't solve every problem in trading systems
·
April 27, 2018
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
8
+
I can't believe it's still snowing in the end of April.
— Nate Foster,
CS3110 lecture
·
April 19, 2018
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
8
+
Dijkstra: The Hopcroft-Tarjan algorithm on planarity - was that ever executed?
Hopcroft: Yes, it was.
Dijkstra: Was that necessary?
Hopcroft: Yes, to get the bugs out of the algorithm.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
·
Jan. 15, 1980
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
8
+
Student: Could you lower the blinds, please?
Gries: Are you sure it's not my brilliance that's blinding you?
— David Gries
·
May 26, 1979
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
7
+
High quality sleep is a constant of the productive function, high quality dining is a coefficient of it.
— Liuting Chen
·
July 28, 2019
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
7
+
Jennae: Is your life balanced?
Ross: Yes it is! Half research, and half teaching!
— Ross Knepper,
On work-life balance during a deep conversation at games night
·
Feb. 1, 2019
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
7
+
There is no prize for finishing your PhD early.
— Andrew Myers,
when discussing the 14 semester limit for a Ph.D. and how you can petition for longer
·
Jan. 31, 2019
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
7
+
On the Internet no one knows you're a Pokémon, and the adversary is trying to get all the Bitcoins for himself.
— Elaine Shi,
concluding talk at the end of the IC3/Ethereum Bootcamp
·
July 28, 2016
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
7
+
What are the eigenvalues of this butt?
— Eston Schweickart,
in response to a poor diagram
·
Feb. 19, 2016
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
7
+
This function is just a hundred-line switch statement in C. You can read and understand that even if you're a PL person.
— Robert Escriva,
responding to Laure during Systems Lunch
·
Feb. 20, 2015
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
7
+
I can't make sense of what's in the book.
— John Hopcroft,
On the Hopcroft & Ullman book
·
April 23, 1982
·
Permalink
-
Voting:
-
7
+
Student: In the recursive Towers of Hanoi program, how do you prove that you never put a disk on a smaller disk?
Gries: You prove it by recursion
Student: You prove it by recursion?
Gries: Sure, you just say, "By recursion."
— David Gries
·
Oct. 17, 1978
·
Permalink