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We Latvians don't have 'w's; life is very simple.
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Nov. 19, 1982
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What we really need is a building. So all of you graduate, become rich, ...
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You can either lament the fact that there are, for example, things we will never know about numbers, or you can say, "Gee, as a mathematician, I'm in business forever!"
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Nov. 12, 1982
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I was exiled for nine months to Ohio State University.
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Nov. 8, 1982
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Clearly, anyone in computer science confronted with a Turing machine would write an assembler for it as quickly as possible and then write some sort of higher-level language compiler for the thing.
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Oct. 29, 1982
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Mr Kant, of course, was wrong, which just shows you what's wrong with philosophers: they don't experiment.
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Oct. 27, 1982
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What can be done mechanically is what can be done by deterministic algorithms. And if you want to be arrogant, what can be done by reliable clerks.
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That's higher than I thought. I guess that means I'm better teacher than I thought I was. Well, I could put it another way - you're not quite as dumb as you look, but I thought you would appreciate it more the other way.
— Juris Hartmanis,
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Oct. 18, 1982
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You can axiomatize what is false in mathematics - but that is not very useful.
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Oct. 18, 1982
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I used to have a coauthor named Sterns. He hated teaching. Stern's way of explaining something when you said you didn't understand was to repeat exactly what he'd said before at greater volume. So nobody didn't understand anything more than once.
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Oct. 18, 1982
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