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If P were equal to NP, then life would still have meaning.
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This class will be content not to show that P != NP. If that comes as a disappointment to you, well then I'm sorry.
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Nov. 26, 1984
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I'll prove on Friday that it's at least as interesting as checkers.
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Nov. 11, 1984
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You can solve NP-complete problems fast if only you had a slave who would be willing to do an infinite amount of work.
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Nov. 9, 1984
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I'll leave it as an exercise. Or you can look in Knuth and find it as an exercise there.
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Nov. 2, 1984
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This is a graduate class; nothing is deterministic.
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Nov. 2, 1984
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We pause for a moment of shock.
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Oct. 29, 1984
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I guess what I formally do is eliminate the recurrence, but what I actually do is write down the answer.
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Sept. 3, 1984
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Do you suppose a sonnet in any other enumeration would sound as sweet?
— John Gilbert,
On the Goedel numbering in Shakespeare's sonnets
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March 24, 1984
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It comes out right even if it is Monday morning.
— John Gilbert
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Feb. 7, 1983
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