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Every day is Kenday.
— Edward Tremel,
Working on a Saturday
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Dec. 12, 2015
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I'm not saying I'm not a miracle worker, but I am a judicious one.
— Marin Cherry,
Studentsplaining
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Dec. 8, 2015
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I just want to believe in the magic of Christmas and Monads.
— Tom Magrino,
Second day of Hanukkah
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Dec. 7, 2015
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I've been outside the alphabet. I've transcended the alphabet.
— Andrew Myers,
Snack assignment
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Dec. 7, 2015
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I've got a lot of gray hair, but what really makes me feel old is that I remember when Ken had hair.
— Mike Stonebraker,
colloquium talk
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Dec. 3, 2015
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Mike: Does anyone know on what platform Oracle runs the best?
Ken: An old Sun Microsystems machine?
Mike: A 35mm slide projector.
— Mike Stonebraker,
after discussing Oracle's commitment to supporting legacy code
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Dec. 3, 2015
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Never bet against the compiler.
— Mike Stonebraker,
on why it's better to program your database in SQL than a low-level NoSQL language
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Dec. 3, 2015
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This is a [BitCoin] paper wallet—Zikai, I believe this has already been spent if you're trying to take a picture.
— Ari Juels,
as Zikai Wen quickly pulls out his phone.
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Nov. 16, 2015
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I wanted to throw out that word just to show you that I know it.
— Dexter Kozen
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Nov. 13, 2015
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You guys are Cornell students, come on. I expect this from Harvard students, but not from Cornell students.
— Dexter Kozen,
complaining about grammatical errors in proofs
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Nov. 13, 2015
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As a control, we measured how much sound we could record with a brick.
— Bill Freeman,
on recovering sound from small motions in video
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Nov. 12, 2015
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NP-hard is...well, it's pretty hard.
— Kilian Weinberger,
CS 4780
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Nov. 11, 2015
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