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Yes, you could have separate telephone wires connecting each pair of telephones. Of course, it would be hard for the sunlight to filter through...
— Fred Schneider,
CS 513
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Dec. 2, 2004
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If you're trying to glue some junk together to build a glued-together junky thing, then Windows is the way to go.
— Ken Birman,
Comment made in a CS414 lecture
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Nov. 23, 2004
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I hate probability . . . why didn't I make a deterministic protocol . . .
— Mahesh Balakrishnan
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Nov. 16, 2004
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I'm the white board Michelangelo.
— Mahesh Balakrishnan
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Nov. 2, 2004
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I want to be sure we finish, so I'm not going to worry about termination.
— David Gries,
Proving the correctness of a loop, with only a few minutes remaining in the lecture.
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Nov. 1, 2004
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Maybe I should have my larynx removed...
— Nate Nystrom,
Avoiding answer questions during talks.
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Nov. 1, 2004
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You can use inference rules to construct a function, just like you can use inference rules to construct any other function.
— Andrew Myers,
While beating a 611 proof into submission.
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Sept. 14, 2004
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This will be the longest word you'll encounter in this course. In fact I'll write it down just so I can read it out. I love saying this word.
— Stephen Vavasis,
Proceeds to write down "submultiplicativity"
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Sept. 14, 2004
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Some of you will think this is the most confusing thing since sliced bread.
— Eva Tardos,
Preparing CS481 for nondeterministic finite automata.
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Sept. 6, 2004
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Structural operational semantics are kind of kinky.
— Fred Schneider
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July 12, 2004
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Routing is a special case, 'cause it's the bottom turtle.
— Paul Francis,
Commenting on routing as a peer-to-peer problem
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May 6, 2004
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This is easily the crappiest paper I'll ever ask anyone to read.
— Gun Sirer,
On a paper read for discussion at the Copano Group meeting
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May 6, 2004
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