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I am not sure what is "curve".
— Elaine Shi,
reassuring students about the midterm
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Oct. 26, 2015
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The two elephants in the room are handling concurrency.
— Kathleen Fisher,
on formal methods
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Oct. 22, 2015
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Cryptographer in audience: What if the *statement* is too long?
Kathleen, after thinking about it for 15 seconds: Do you mean the specification!?
— Kathleen Fisher,
Colloquium talk
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Oct. 22, 2015
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Tom: Do you know how much privacy you want?
Eleanor: Two.
— Eleanor Birrell,
on the privacy parameter in differential privacy
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Oct. 21, 2015
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We didn’t come here to sleep together, although that might be enjoyable.
— RMS,
on why we should leave the lights on
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Oct. 21, 2015
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Attacking ships is very bad. Let's send the Navy and put a stop to it.
— RMS,
discussing his opinions of piracy
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Oct. 21, 2015
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Andrew: Also, it's a matter of...
Matthew: Life and death!
— Andrew Hirsch and Matthew Milano,
darkly discussing pie
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Oct. 19, 2015
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Our modest goal is world domination.
— Dave Patterson,
describing the RISC-V project
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Oct. 15, 2015
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P = NP or bust, I say.
— Nate Foster,
on fellowship application topics
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Oct. 13, 2015
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We have a name, a three-letter acronym, and a mission statement. What else could we need?
— Dahlia Malkhi,
on her research group at VMware
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Oct. 9, 2015
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A panel is just a framework in which the moderator asks questions, and then the panelists talk about whatever they want to anyway.
— Dahlia Malkhi,
as a panelist at the FuDiCo workshop
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Oct. 9, 2015
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I realize many of you want to provide comments, but I'm looking for questions, so just at the end add "What do you think about that?"
— Robbert van Renesse,
inviting questions for a panel at FuDiCo
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Oct. 9, 2015
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