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Performance is the enemy of security, as they say. Well, I don't know if people say that, but I just said it.
— Drew Zagieboylo,
on security research
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Nov. 2, 2018
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My favorite feature of Haskell is [unintelligible screaming].
— Michael Roberts,
commenting on the accessibility of Haskell talks
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Nov. 1, 2018
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It's not new, but it is Extra
— Drew Zagieboylo,
on new typed assembly languages
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Oct. 24, 2018
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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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Oct. 18, 2018
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Shir: Does anyone know what the sound from the clock tower is? It sounds like a pterodactyl. Or a Whale
Lucy: Shir, how do you know what a pterodactyl sounds like?
— Shir and Lucy,
discussing a strange emenation from McGraw Tower.
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Oct. 14, 2018
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What do you have against fixed point combinators?
— Adrian Sampson,
defensively professing
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Oct. 12, 2018
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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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Oct. 8, 2018
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Maximizing is for losers. Always minimize.
— Kilian Weinberger,
on maximum likelihood estimation
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Sept. 27, 2018
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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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Sept. 19, 2018
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I'm not in for the "Better" part, I'm just here for the anarchy
— Rachit Nigam,
Planning a Blades in the Dark session
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Sept. 16, 2018
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I think that, as a community, PL people have a moral responsibility to step in and say "No, you're having fun wrong!"
— Michael Roberts,
On music programming languages
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Sept. 12, 2018
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You want mental illness? You've got mental illness.
— Isaac Sheff,
describing the first season of Netflix's Punisher
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Sept. 10, 2018
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