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It's because I'm French. I know Americans don't like to have zero as a natural number.
— Georges Gonthier,
In response to a question from Greg Kuperberg as to why 2 was defined as 1+(1+0) instead of just 1+1.
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May 20, 2005
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This is an important research area, but unfortunately it's boring.
— Raj Reddy,
At AI Lunch
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April 7, 2005
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You can't be a vendor and say "my system has all these guarantees, but it's a little slow. And I've proved there's no point in trying to speed it up".
Your clients will say "And we can prove there's no way you're getting a check"
— Ken Birman,
[Discussing quorum replication in cs514]
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March 31, 2005
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The fancy diagrams are stolen. The simple diagrams are made by me.
— Hitesh Ballani,
In a 612 presentation on Cache-Oblivious algorithms.
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March 31, 2005
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My honeymoon with Perl is over.
— Selcuk Aya,
Talking about the need to modularize his Perl code.
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March 8, 2005
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You know this is important if there are two levels of introduction. And if I put on a skirt.
— Claire Cardie,
First Charlie introduced the Gerard Salton lecture series, and then Claire introduced Karen Sparck Jones, the first speaker in it.
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March 1, 2005
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Dexter: I mixed up left and right.
Juris: You're left handed, aren't you?
Dexter: Yes
Juris: Oh, that explains it.
— Juris Hartmanis,
During AI Lunch
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Feb. 11, 2005
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Thorsten [Joachims] is a convex guy.
— Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil,
Intending to say that Thorsten is interested in optimization problems that are convex.
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Feb. 11, 2005
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Sadly the world is full of non-logicians.
— Vicky Weissman,
At AI Lunch
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Feb. 11, 2005
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That's on Valentine's day. You know
C's a very romantic language—it's got a forever loop.
— Paul Francis,
On scheduling a C tutorial for Feb 14.
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Feb. 9, 2005
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Tom Finley: [At home,] I would like to have bookcases that are completely filled up with books.
David: Well, there are two ways to achieve this - you can either buy books or throw away bookcases.
— David Martin,
In the office, while discussing textbook purchases and considering the attractiveness of books and bookcases for interior decoration.
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Jan. 25, 2005
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I know what you were going to say, and it's not quite right.
— Joe Halpern,
In CS 576
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Dec. 2, 2004
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