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Frankly, I would say I have a gluttony for parentheses
— Ramin Zabih,
CS 311 lecture (Fall 2012)
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Sept. 10, 2013
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The easiest way to confuse me after 2-line concurrent locking protocols is to give me a 3-line Lisp program.
— Fred Schneider,
talking about the complexity of programs at the Systems Lunch
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Sept. 26, 2008
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How about Bayes Watch?
— Dexter Kozen,
Response to Alex Niculescu's plea for title suggestions for his untitled B-exam talk on Bayesian networks.
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June 9, 2008
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Tom: I could lend you my broomstick.
Benyah: But then how will you get here?
— Benyah Shaparenko,
After his A-exam practice talk, on suggestions for pointing devices.
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Jan. 10, 2008
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I am the founder of the Russian hamster breeding community; I am quite proud of this.
— Daria Sorokina
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Dec. 16, 2007
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The fact that I've lost several moles worth of atoms since last Friday doesn't make you think I'm a different value.
— Andrew Myers,
When describing the meaning of state in programming languages.
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Sept. 21, 2007
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If you kick x, y jumps.
— Andrew Myers,
When elucidating the perils of imperative programming.
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Sept. 21, 2007
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...you're given an instance of some instance-ness...
— Eric Breck,
NLP seminar presentation
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Sept. 10, 2007
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While I'm drunk I should probably run that experiment I've been thinking about.
— Thomas Finley,
Not too long after his thesis proposal.
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Feb. 23, 2007
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In some sense, the world is a bunch of limbs.
— Dan Huttenlocher,
During a vision seminar.
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Feb. 1, 2007
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The idea here is that when there's a war, you should just give everybody more guns.
— Andrew Myers,
On a DDoS paper in the Systems Lunch
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Jan. 26, 2007
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Classical Chinese is very much like Perl.
— Benyah Shaparenko
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Dec. 7, 2006
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