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What can be done mechanically is what can be done by deterministic algorithms. And if you want to be arrogant, what can be done by reliable clerks.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Oct. 27, 1982
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I can fix it, unfortunately. Let's hope it won't work. If it does work, I'm going to have to leave it in, and it's disgusting.
— Alan Demers,
About a terminal switch bug
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Oct. 26, 1982
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Let me write down the natural numbers and then stop.
— Alan Demers
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Oct. 20, 1982
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I think in fact what is frightening about this whole algorithm, besides the way it is written up, is that it is the state of the art.
— Dale Skeen
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Oct. 19, 1982
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That's higher than I thought. I guess that means I'm better teacher than I thought I was. Well, I could put it another way - you're not quite as dumb as you look, but I thought you would appreciate it more the other way.
— Juris Hartmanis,
Discussing the average on a prelim
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Oct. 18, 1982
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You can axiomatize what is false in mathematics - but that is not very useful.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Oct. 18, 1982
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I used to have a coauthor named Sterns. He hated teaching. Stern's way of explaining something when you said you didn't understand was to repeat exactly what he'd said before at greater volume. So nobody didn't understand anything more than once.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Oct. 18, 1982
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I am feeling like an algorithm.
— Sam Toueg
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Oct. 14, 1982
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These are correct programs, just to forestall any questions.
— Peter Weinburger
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Oct. 14, 1982
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I don't care if it's accurate enough, it just has to have many more bits.
— Peter Weinburger
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Oct. 14, 1982
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All C programs do the same thing: look at a character and do nothing with it.
— Peter Weinburger
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Oct. 14, 1982
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If you go to a Computer Science colloquium, say something about FORTRAN, IBM and everybody chuckles. That kind of arrogance always gets a good laugh.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Oct. 8, 1982
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