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All will hear the jingle-jangle of her strings, and despair!
— Michael Roberts,
Discussing the potential "greatest and most terrible of mandolinists"
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Jan. 24, 2019
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Pain, pain, pain, pain
— Newton Ni,
when asked what is P4
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Dec. 16, 2018
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I'm written in Rust and Haskell. That's why I don't do anything.
— Wil Thomason,
explaining his problems with the real world
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Nov. 29, 2018
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Most of us know Fabian for his department service and his cakes. If you don't know what I mean about cakes, you haven't been spending enough time at department picnics.
It turns out he does research as well.
— Bobby Kleinberg,
introducing Fabian Muehlboeck at colloquium
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Nov. 27, 2018
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Stack Overflow often has the answer for how to look up the answer, though.
— Drew Zagieboylo,
explaining how to figure out how to profile Java
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Nov. 19, 2018
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You've noticed in this class, we've used whatever notation is convenient.
— John Hopcroft,
explaining Turing Machines
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Nov. 17, 2018
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If you want to know when he's up, just keep texting him, "U up?"
— Isaac Sheff,
on how to keep tabs on one's friends
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Nov. 16, 2018
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That’s just a polynomial time algorithm for 3-CNF
— John Hopcroft,
after being asked what was in the box he drew on the chalkboard
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Nov. 16, 2018
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Any movie with a decapitated horse's head is a gift.
— Rolph Recto,
Discussing The Godfather
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Nov. 14, 2018
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Ross: Oh, did I tell you last time I played Pokémon I named my rival Fabian?
Fabian: why your rival?
Ross: well I only get to name myself and my rival, and *I'm* obviously Ross.
Fabian: well, I *guess* I'm honored...
— Ross Tate and Fabian Muehlboeck,
driving home from SPLASH
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Nov. 9, 2018
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There's very few ways I could describe JavaScript without using curse words.
— Kyle Harms,
helping a student debug JavaScript code
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Nov. 6, 2018
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Drew: 1500 lines of assembly is nothing. That's like an afternoon.
Tom: that's an afternoon I would hate!
Drew: well it wouldn't work.
— Drew and Tom,
discussing the assembly portion of a Go operating system
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Nov. 2, 2018
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