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The recursion theorem is just like tennis. Unless you're exposed to it at age five, you'll never become world class.
— Juris Hartmanis
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May 1, 1982
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While you're being interrupted, let me just comment ...
— Juris Hartmanis
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May 1, 1982
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Kadin: I've made a monster.
Hartmanis: You've made a monster before.
— John Kadin
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May 1, 1982
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I can't make sense of what's in the book.
— John Hopcroft,
On the Hopcroft & Ullman book
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April 23, 1982
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It just doesn't look the same when you can see it.
— Pavel Curtis,
On the London Bridge
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April 11, 1982
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I always felt it was a pity that computers made rounding errors.
— J. H. Wilkinson
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April 8, 1982
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I've led a sheltered life.
— Fred Schneider
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April 5, 1982
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I have work to do this summer; I can't spend my time conquering the world!
— Bob Harper
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March 24, 1982
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Contractions are guaranteed to be cycle preserving under explosion, whatever that means.
— Bowen Alpern
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Feb. 26, 1982
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Can I erase this board? Obviously - I've just done it.
— Alan Demers
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Feb. 24, 1982
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Joseph: If you go to MIT, at some point you should try to lose the audience.
Hartmanis: If you don't, they feel insulted.
— Debbie Joseph
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Feb. 17, 1982
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I'm not Bob Constable up here, I'm perfectly willing to consider functions as ordered pairs.
— Alan Demers
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Feb. 15, 1982
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