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I shouldn't have even told you about the crack lattice.
— Serge Belongie,
regretfully.
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So I just sled home every day! It's pretty easy, except this one turn where if you miss it you fly off the trail! But that's okay, because we can just aim for my neighbour's house, and then you just need to stop before you fly off the cliff!
— Ross Tate,
Discussing his daily commute
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In theory A, the A stands for America, 'cause we did it first.
— Bob Constable
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This subtree is now damaged goods and needs to rethink life.
— Eva Tardos,
On the amortized analysis of cascading cuts (CS 681)
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Do you mind if my prime is a power of two?
— John Hopcroft
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If I can't read it, tell me.
— David Gries,
On his writing on the board
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We have to address the elephant in the room, which is that it would be difficult to put an elephant in the room.
— Angjoo Kanazawa,
on the limitations of 3D motion capture setups
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Huh, I did not know about SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB (edited)
— Andrew Myers,
An accidental Java self-parody, courtesy of slack
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Tom: So this is how Grep works
Andru: Actually, grep did not originally do that. In fact, I fixed grep to use it.
— Andrew Myers,
Discussing implementations of the boyer-moore algorithm.
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All will hear the jingle-jangle of her strings, and despair!
— Michael Roberts,
Discussing the potential "greatest and most terrible of mandolinists"
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Jan. 24, 2019
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Any movie with a decapitated horse's head is a gift.
— Rolph Recto,
Discussing The Godfather
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I'm not dead yet!
— Dexter Kozen,
after almost losing in an in class demo of 2048
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I've never made an effort that wasn't exceedingly half-assed.
— Ethan Benjamin Cecchetti,
On trying to conceal his middle name
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Sorry, did you want us to *understand* that, or not?
— Nate Foster,
As Ethan is about to move to the next slide in his otherwise comprehensible PLDG talk
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Nobel prize in Economics is not a real Nobel Prize. They just named their prize Nobel Prize.
— John Hopcroft,
when talking about assigning global ranking and Arrow's theorem, who won a Nobel Prize in Economics.
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