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How about a proof by example?
— John Hopcroft
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Oct. 19, 1979
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Now we can prove problems right and left to be NP-complete.
— John Hopcroft
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Oct. 19, 1979
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Student: Where's Hopcroft?
Furst: Aren't I Hopcroft?
— Merrick Furst
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Oct. 12, 1979
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In n-space you have a unit baseball. Under |A| you have a unit football.
— Charlie Van Loan
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Oct. 11, 1979
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This is know as the Law of Conservation of Forks.
— Fred Schneider,
While discussing the Dining Philosophers
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Oct. 10, 1979
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Its predecessor is somewhere off in the great beyond.
— Jim Donahue
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Oct. 9, 1979
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A terminal node is not one that is about to die.
— Jim Donahue
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Oct. 9, 1979
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Does everyone see the intuitive idea before we get into the details? Does anyone want to see the details?
— John Hopcroft
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Sept. 24, 1979
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Why are we doing this? Because there are some neat theorems to be proved at the end of this course.
— Jim Donahue
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Sept. 23, 1979
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If you never have to use a machine but you need one to give pathological examples, then the 360 is my favorite machine.
— Fred Schneider
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Sept. 14, 1979
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If I can't read it, tell me.
— David Gries,
On his writing on the board
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Sept. 6, 1979
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Programs don't execute, at least not in 613.
— Fred Schneider
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Sept. 5, 1979
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