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The proof took five blackboards, so the method is worthless.
— Jim Donahue
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Feb. 2, 1977
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The only way false can be true is if ...
— Bob Constable
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Jan. 26, 1977
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My feeling is that Salton is beginning to drip into the fire.
— Sandor Halaasz
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Jan. 24, 1977
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This is important, but the stuff I understand is completely irrelevant.
— Greg Andrews
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Nov. 19, 1976
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There's nothing profound here, and that may be true of the whole lecture.
— Greg Andrews
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Nov. 17, 1976
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I have never presented this without getting it backwards. My solution this year is to leave it as a homework exercise.
— Charlie Van Loan
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Nov. 15, 1976
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Will the rest of the talk be in English?
— Juris Hartmanis,
To a seminar speaker who, unlike himself, spoke with an accent
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Oct. 14, 1976
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You're cheating, but we still haven't figured out how.
— Dick Conway,
To Gries
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Oct. 7, 1976
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For anybody else that'd be silly, but not for Dijkstra.
— Dick Conway
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Oct. 7, 1976
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There's apparently a lot of ad hoc-ery going on here.
— John Williams
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Oct. 7, 1976
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Aij is not Aij. Don't quote me on that - it sounds like a madman!
— Charlie Van Loan
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Oct. 4, 1976
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Hopefully - I'm David Gries from Cornell.
— David Gries
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Sept. 30, 1976
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