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I'll call this phi and psi again just to be confusing.
— Jim Donahue
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Feb. 27, 1979
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One reason that concept is peculiar is that in mathematics one always deals with extensional objects, and thus never discusses them, while in computer science one rarely deals with extensional objects, and thus never discusses them.
— Bob Constable
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Feb. 23, 1979
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You put handcuffs on yourself and try to swim the English Channel or something.
— Alan Demers
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Feb. 22, 1979
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This is a very vague argument, but it's valid in practice.
— Frank Luk
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Feb. 16, 1979
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We are experimenting with constructive set theory, and so may go wrong.
— Bob Constable
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Feb. 9, 1979
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It turns out that restricting yourself to continuous functions is no great act of heroism.
— Jim Donahue
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Feb. 8, 1979
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Why am I using complete lattices? Well, it's what I was brought up on.
— Jim Donahue
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Feb. 6, 1979
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I don't have a copy of this. I've never even read it, but it gets referenced a lot.
— Jim Donahue
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Feb. 1, 1979
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You really wouldn't want to work out the successor of 25
— Jim Donahue
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Jan. 25, 1979
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Usually, of course, you stop after a finite number of steps.
— Frank Luk
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Jan. 24, 1979
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Whenever it doesn't make sense, stop me, because there's a good change it's wrong.
— John Hopcroft
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Jan. 24, 1979
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We're trying very hard to make sure that this Christmas tree isn't anti-semantic.
— Diane Duke
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Dec. 13, 1978
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