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I have to tie my shoe. In rugby, you say "minute, please". Actually you usually say that after you've been punched in the face.
— Dexter Kozen
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Nov. 7, 2006
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Go directly to CS280. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
— Fred Schneider,
Critiquing notation during a talk.
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May 5, 2006
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Oh, and don't tell them about 611!
— Andrew Myers,
Giving advice to the Visit day czars.
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Feb. 20, 2006
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When you're stealing stuff you don't really care about performance.
— Paul Francis,
Explaining to the ACSU why people used gnutella, even though it scales poorly.
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Feb. 15, 2006
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The colloquium will ... provide graduate students opportunities to resent their work ...
— CS Webmaster,
Announcing NESCAI '06, a student run AI colloquium.
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Dec. 12, 2005
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There's a big difference between a hundred steps and a million steps - if you're doing it by hand, you see this difference right away.
— Stephen Vavasis
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Nov. 19, 2005
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Is today Santa Claus day?
— Hitesh Ballani,
Upon finding Christmas decorations.
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Oct. 29, 2005
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This is not a prepared talk by the way. It's just me talking.
— Thomas Finley,
Preface to machine learning discussion group presentation
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Oct. 21, 2005
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What I will prove in the next... negative four minutes...
— Eva Tardos
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Oct. 2, 2005
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You guys there in the back need to grow longer necks... Lamarckian evolution.
— Andrew Myers,
After constant problems with using lower parts of the blackboard.
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Sept. 23, 2005
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So we may be computing the wrong thing, but at least we can compute it very quickly.
— Lillian Lee,
During a Colloquium talk, discussing the application of fast min-cut algorithms to an NLP problem.
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Sept. 8, 2005
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The test of a good theory is that there should be twice as many theorems as the number of definitions.
— Mike Todd
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Aug. 30, 2005
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