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 Writing statements is hard hard. 
		   — Nate Foster, 
		   giving a talk about fellowships 
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			 Oct. 6, 2015 
		  
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 Cisco's never really done security until now. 
		   — Robert Broberg, 
		   explaining the research history of Cisco 
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			 Oct. 2, 2015 
		  
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 "Yes, Nate?" - Gün
"Jiggle your dongle." - Nate 
		   — Nate Foster, 
		   at the Industry-Academia Partnership Cloud Computing Workshop, helping Gun out with a blue problem 
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			 Oct. 2, 2015 
		  
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 We send messages to what we call "gates," because we got a lot of money from Gates. 
		   — Robbert van Renesse, 
		   describing the networking layer in his cloud computing system 
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			 Oct. 2, 2015 
		  
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 I'm a princess; they'll listen to me! 
		   — Matthew Milano, 
		   Somewhere north of Kiev 
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			 Oct. 1, 2015 
		  
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 Yaaay, I love dictating! 
		   — Fabian Muehlboeck, 
		   celebrating the opportunity to decide on dinner. 
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			 Sept. 30, 2015 
		  
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 You can't trust anyone these days because they always turn out to be FBI agents. 
		   — Ari Juels, 
		   while describing the advantages of smart contracts for criminals 
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			 Sept. 28, 2015 
		  
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 We could have fewer lawyers in the world. That's an unmitigated good. 
		   — Ari Juels, 
		   on non-criminal uses of smart contracts 
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			 Sept. 28, 2015 
		  
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 You shouldn't even be able to get a CS degree if you use a Hotmail account. 
		   — Anne Bracy, 
		   annoyed at the fact that her attempts to e-mail a student at their Cornell address resulted in a bounce from a Hotmail account. 
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			 Sept. 24, 2015 
		  
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 That's a bug, but it could also be a feature. 
		   — Scott Wehrwein, 
		   on a seam in his temporal composite video, in which people suddenly go from fast to slow motion when passing a tree. 
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			 Sept. 23, 2015 
		  
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 "Interesting," it turns out, is hard to define. 
		   — Scott Wehrwein, 
		   on building an "interesting detector" for videos 
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			 Sept. 23, 2015 
		  
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 That's just data collection, so don't blame me.
Well, I collected the data too, so blame me. 
		   — Scott Wehrwein, 
		   during a student brown bag talk. 
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			 Sept. 23, 2015 
		  
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