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Happy slaves are productive slaves.
— Andrew Myers,
discussing graduate students
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Sept. 20, 2016
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The passive voice should not be used.
— Ross Knepper,
when discussing common fellowship application pitfalls
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Sept. 13, 2016
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That's what Robbert asked me when we did the dry run tomorrow.
— Shrutarshi Basu,
answering a question at systems lunch
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Sept. 2, 2016
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I was the future once...
— Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil,
reminiscing about his time as a PhD student
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Aug. 30, 2016
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As you might know, betrayal is everywhere.
— Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil,
motivating his research
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Aug. 30, 2016
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This isn't so useful: once you've been betrayed, a smart AI system comes along and tells you "hey, you've been betrayed!"
— Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil,
explaining why a system that detects betrayal after it's happened isn't interesting
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Aug. 30, 2016
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Don't mind this. I'm just putting it here to scare everyone.
— Yoav Artzi,
when a slide of combinatory categorial grammar comes up.
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Aug. 23, 2016
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Long story short, Becky is a magical badass. No one knows how she does everything that she does.
— Jed Liu,
Talking about one of the many things Becky does to make the CS PhD program awesome.
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Aug. 17, 2016
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Let's avoid unicode.
— Andrew Myers,
Typing on his modified-dvorak keyboard, using chording for arrows and greek
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Aug. 17, 2016
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Dying and graduating are NOT the same thing. You can still Skype people who died.
— Matthew Milano,
Explaining Owen
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Aug. 11, 2016
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Nobody likes exceptions more than I do, and even I don't really like them.
— Andrew Myers,
Professing
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Aug. 10, 2016
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Josh: "Wait, where do you get Lox around here?"
Matthew: The locksmith, obviously
— Matthew Milano and Josh Gancher,
Advising Ethan what might be for dinner.
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Aug. 9, 2016
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