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Non-determinism is a very wasteful thing - it's sort of like evolution, trying everything.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Oct. 8, 1982
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Sort of the James Thurber of the computing world.
— Alan Zaring,
On Knuth
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Sept. 30, 1982
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Well what does a finite automaton do? An FA runs around until it hits an accepting state and then celebrates.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Sept. 29, 1982
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That's what made 682 enjoyable for me - that I could make associations with Greek myth.
— Amr El Abbadi
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Sept. 23, 1982
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If I show you that from language theory you can get an engineering design, you should be impressed. So please prepare yourselves to be impressed.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Sept. 22, 1982
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I really believe that most of classical mathematics is meaningless at best.
— Bob Constable
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Sept. 16, 1982
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The function asymptotically approaches B, and then passes B.
— Dale Skeen
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Sept. 16, 1982
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I mean, there are papers; you believe papers, don't you?
— Sam Toueg
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Sept. 16, 1982
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It's only a constant factor, but it's larger than log n as long as n is less than the number of atoms in the universe.
— Jon Bentley
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Sept. 9, 1982
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For those of you who like to write loop invariants before you go to bed every night ...
— Jon Bentley
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Sept. 9, 1982
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There's a general programming principle: whenever you have a square root, you can remove it and your program will be correct.
— Jon Bentley
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Sept. 9, 1982
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Our friend, Mr. Monotonicity, comes to visit us.
— Jon Bentley
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Sept. 9, 1982
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