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Scott's the guy for you to talk to. It's his building, I just live here.
— Fred Schneider,
talking to facilities workers about work on the Systems Lab
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The easiest way to confuse me after 2-line concurrent locking protocols is to give me a 3-line Lisp program.
— Fred Schneider,
talking about the complexity of programs at the Systems Lunch
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Go directly to CS280. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
— Fred Schneider,
Critiquing notation during a talk.
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Yes, you could have separate telephone wires connecting each pair of telephones. Of course, it would be hard for the sunlight to filter through...
— Fred Schneider,
CS 513
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Structural operational semantics are kind of kinky.
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If I had to build an attack that didn't apply in the real world, I could make it hard to detect too.
— Fred Schneider,
Commenting on a weak TCP attack in the Systems Lunch.
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Your gun, your foot.
— Fred Schneider
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In 1972, functions were higher-order mathematics for computer scientists.
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If you want something even uglier, you can look at how Windows works.
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You can imagine (it might require a lot of imagination) not wanting to allow division by 2 twice.
— Fred Schneider
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