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People who move to Montana are looking for a slower lifestyle.
— Fred Schneider,
during colloquium, on why the map of a proposed speed-of-light Internet doesn't include Montana
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March 5, 2015
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This is an idiot wind blowing through our great nation.
— Serge Belongie,
on the white+gold/blue+black dress debate.
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March 3, 2015
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I want to spend a little time on color, because of that... thing that happened over the weekend.
— Serge Belongie,
in grad computer vision, the week after a debate on the color of a blue and black dress melted the Internet
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March 3, 2015
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Trees are trees of trees.
— Jimmy B,
CS4820
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March 1, 2015
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It's 3500 lines of code, most of it in Coq proofs, which is more than most systems people can handle.
— Laure Thompson,
while presenting a paper in Systems Lunch
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Feb. 20, 2015
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This function is just a hundred-line switch statement in C. You can read and understand that even if you're a PL person.
— Robert Escriva,
responding to Laure during Systems Lunch
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Feb. 20, 2015
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I don't know. It's related to something
— Fran Mota,
PLDG, answering a question.
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Feb. 20, 2015
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I'm going to make a language called "Blanket." It will have a high thread count.
— Fran Mota
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Feb. 20, 2015
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What does it mean to exist?
— Owen Arden,
Andrew Myers Group Meeting
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Feb. 17, 2015
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Suppose I inappropriately trusted you
— Ken Birman,
Asking a question during a systems lunch talk on bitcoin
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Feb. 13, 2015
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I shouldn't have even told you about the crack lattice.
— Serge Belongie,
regretfully.
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Feb. 12, 2015
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One of my main advantages is a lack of common sense.
— Jonathan Shi,
On Quantum Computing
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Feb. 9, 2015
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