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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
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April 27, 2018
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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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April 20, 2018
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I can't believe it's still snowing in the end of April.
— Nate Foster,
CS3110 lecture
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April 19, 2018
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"Now there's a lot of fuss about this notion of universality of Turing machines..."
— Fred Schneider,
Starting a question during colloquium
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March 27, 2018
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Machine learning is going to change the world and make security even worse.
— Ulfar Erlingsson,
at Systems Lunch, on the future of security
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March 23, 2018
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If Michael Roberts dies, get out of the mine.
— Ross Knepper,
discussing good canaries for course comprehension.
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Jan. 31, 2018
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I can not think out why exists such a obscure language! This project had made me headache several days.
— melvin,
A user under the pseudonym "melvin" complaining about OCaml and the Frenetic project on the official OCaml discussion forum
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Jan. 30, 2018
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Do you want to go play board games or are you gonna hang out with these losers?
— Fabian Mühlbock,
said on Friday night at Rulloff’s when people were about to get more drinks
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Dec. 8, 2017
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What does everybody have against passive-aggression? Sometimes, people deserve it.
— Fabian Muehlboeck,
giving tips on managing your advisor
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Nov. 27, 2017
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Who put a bear in my slides?!... Oh, it was me.
— Scott Wehrwein,
when a video of a bear was unexpectedly his next slide
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Nov. 15, 2017
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I cast: "speak with Greg!"
— Eston Schweickart,
on locating Steve
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Nov. 9, 2017
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It turns out Cook later won the Turing award for this proof. Goes to show that you don't really have to do anything deep to get recognized in computer science.
— John Hopcroft,
on the proof that SAT is NP-Complete
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Nov. 6, 2017
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