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I don't want to remove temptation from malicious people. I want them to be malicious and then have the pleasure of killing them.
— Alan Demers
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Aug. 2, 1979
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I'm going to call that a picture proof.
— John Hopcroft
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May 28, 1979
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He probably wanted to get to the point where he could define PL/I on one side of a 3x5 card.
— Jim Donahue
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May 27, 1979
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Demers: Why did we switch from call-by-reference to call-by-value, when we switched from procedures to functions?
Donahue: I don't know.
Demers: I guess that's as good an answer as any.
— Alan Demers
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May 27, 1979
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Student: Could you lower the blinds, please?
Gries: Are you sure it's not my brilliance that's blinding you?
— David Gries
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May 26, 1979
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For many other people their lack of knowledge is much more obvious.
— Ralph Johnson
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May 21, 1979
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I'd hate to leave you for a vacation without showing you how to prove that a problem is NP-complete.
— John Hopcroft
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May 16, 1979
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I should never do things carefully.
— John Hopcroft,
After messing up a proof by forgetting how to use induction
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May 14, 1979
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Well, I'm not going to talk about string quartets today.
— Jim Donahue
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May 13, 1979
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We haven't said anything and we've said everything.
— Jim Donahue
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May 13, 1979
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By the time you read the details, you should either be completely lost, or completely understand what is going on.
— Jim Donahue
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May 13, 1979
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This report is about as impenetrable as its title.
— Jim Donahue,
On "Admissibility of Fixed Point Inductions in First Order Logic of Typed Theories," by S. Igarashi
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May 6, 1979
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