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Nothing is interesting until it is.
— Adrian Sampson,
discussing real time image recognition across frames in Game of Thrones
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Aug. 30, 2017
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The first rule of fight club is: don't use large numbers.
— Greg Morrisett,
on constraints of using natural numbers in Coq
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Aug. 28, 2017
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Assuming the lower bound is death...
— Sam Havron,
when discussing potential fatal (or worse) scenarios in arbitrary environments
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Aug. 19, 2017
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It really goes from zero to Jesus real fast.
— Matthew Milano,
about talking vegetables
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Aug. 7, 2017
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The Internet, as it turns out, is the world's largest dongle.
— Jed Liu,
commenting on using the internet to move a file from a flash drive to a laptop.
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June 15, 2017
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"There was an explosion, that nobody was hurt in." - Tom Magrino
"Oh, you're talking about the new pope." - Fabian Muehlboeck
— Tom Magrino and Fabian Muehlboeck,
talking about the Ithapope
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June 9, 2017
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Board Games.
Brown Bag.
Coke...that's a beverage...
— Fred Schneider,
thanking the different Czars for their service
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May 12, 2017
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I'm never going to get this wrong; I'm never going to get this right.
— Andrew Hirsch,
pronouns for mushrooms
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April 27, 2017
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So what is to stop this from generating flying pigs?
— Ross Knepper,
at a job talk on vision
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April 25, 2017
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Bobby Kleinberg: Does that mean the nodes are "homophobic"?
Cris Moore: We prefer the term "heterophilic."
— Bobby Kleinberg,
talking about graph models where nodes prefer to form edges if they have different properties from one another
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April 24, 2017
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The key thing is to show that you've thought about it, which is best done by thinking about it.
— Ross Knepper,
explaining how to write a teaching statement
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April 18, 2017
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That's a complete contradiction of what I've just said, but they're both true.
...That's going on the quotes page, isn't it.
— Ross Knepper,
after explaining that nobody reads teaching statements, but they're very important.
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April 18, 2017
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