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It's amazing how much you can do lecturing, when you realize how little there is.
— Greg Andrews
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Dec. 6, 1978
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Student: Tim, there was a blatant case of cheating on the program. What should we do?
Tim: What did she look like?
— Tim Teitelbaum
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Dec. 5, 1978
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It spaces me out every time I look at it.
— Alan Demers
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Dec. 1, 1978
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There's no way I can hope to get done today, so I suspect I'll dribble over to Monday.
— Greg Andrews
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Dec. 1, 1978
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A program is a comment, a means for getting a precondition to what you want.
— Corky Cartwright
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Nov. 22, 1978
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It just wouldn't do you any good to apply the pumping lemma to the 168 - it doesn't stay up that long.
— Alan Demers
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Nov. 20, 1978
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It depends on something that I really don't want to get into - it depends on honesty.
— Alan Demers
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Nov. 20, 1978
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No, I did not prove it correct. I sat at a terminal at midnight and fiddled with it until it worked.
— Alan Demers
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Nov. 17, 1978
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Demers: Here is the promised Fast Fourier Transform example. It worked for the two examples I tried, so I'm fairly sure it's correct.
Student: Proof by exhaustive testing?
Demers: Well, it sure exhausted me.
— Alan Demers
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Nov. 17, 1978
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A k-tape non-deterministic Turing machine is this umpteen-tuple.
— Alan Demers
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Nov. 17, 1978
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When I divide b by n what do I get? Well, I get b over n, obviously.
— Alan Demers
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Nov. 15, 1978
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This may be impossible. At least it's hard. I don't know how to do it.
— Alan Demers
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Nov. 13, 1978
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