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We Latvians don't have 'w's; life is very simple.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Nov. 19, 1982
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What we really need is a building. So all of you graduate, become rich, ...
— Juris Hartmanis
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Nov. 12, 1982
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You can either lament the fact that there are, for example, things we will never know about numbers, or you can say, "Gee, as a mathematician, I'm in business forever!"
— Juris Hartmanis
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Nov. 12, 1982
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The capacity says, "The plague on you," and zap!
— David Farber
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Nov. 11, 1982
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A distributed algorithm is one that's neither here nor there.
— David Farber
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Nov. 11, 1982
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I was exiled for nine months to Ohio State University.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Nov. 8, 1982
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For numerical analysis, there are theorems that are true, and theorems that are really true.
— John Dennis
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Nov. 7, 1982
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FORTRAN programmers get really disoriented when they can't find any GOTO's.
— Ken Kennedy
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Nov. 4, 1982
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Where you approve of the direction we've taken is immaterial because it's the direction we took.
— Ken Kennedy
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Nov. 4, 1982
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Lemma 3 very pretty, with conditions very few, but the proof of the poor lemma is impossible to do.
— John Gilbert,
On Chordal Graph handout
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Oct. 31, 1982
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Clearly, anyone in computer science confronted with a Turing machine would write an assembler for it as quickly as possible and then write some sort of higher-level language compiler for the thing.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Oct. 29, 1982
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Mr Kant, of course, was wrong, which just shows you what's wrong with philosophers: they don't experiment.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Oct. 27, 1982
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