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Here's a list of the quotes that I'm submitting to the upcoming issue of mathNEWS. Enjoy. :)
"What's purple and conquered the world? Alex The Grape."
-Snyder, RS 230
(on the collapse of the Western Roman Empire) "Afterwards, it was like President's Choice 'Memories of Western Roman Empire'...available in your frozen food section."
-Snyder, RS 230
"This is me going high-tech: using an overhead."
-Snyder, RS 230
"We have three examples on the board, and since the first two are true, it logically follows that the last one is false."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"This is our knowledge base, which we will call 'gamma' to make it sound important."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"It took me years to be able to talk about one thing and write about another thing on the blackboard at the same time. A third thing I can do is daydream about what I'm going to do after class. My wife says it's a bad sign."
-Van Beek, CS 486
Prof: "Pick a crime."
Student: "Murder."
Prof: "That's a good one."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"You know, there's one crime that's worst than murder: plagiarism."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"We want to find the axioms. Well, that's the royal 'we'. I want to find the axioms."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"An example of independent variables is the probability that you will eat sushi tonight, given that there were tainted fish and a bunch of people died. No, wait..."
-Van Beek, CS 486
(after asking a quesiton and getting no response)
"Maybe you're all reeling from your assignment 1 marks. Or maybe you're all angry at me. Well, the beauty of the system is that the TA marked assignment 1, so you can't be angry at me."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"When I was younger, I used to worry that chalk dust was carcinogenic, like asbestos. But then I realised that there were a lot of old profs, so I stopped worrying."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"How many of you have a girlfriend? Well, this real-time course will fix that by the time this term is over."
-Cormack, CS 452
"What's purple and conquered the world? Alex The Grape."
-Snyder, RS 230
(on the collapse of the Western Roman Empire) "Afterwards, it was like President's Choice 'Memories of Western Roman Empire'...available in your frozen food section."
-Snyder, RS 230
"This is me going high-tech: using an overhead."
-Snyder, RS 230
"We have three examples on the board, and since the first two are true, it logically follows that the last one is false."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"This is our knowledge base, which we will call 'gamma' to make it sound important."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"It took me years to be able to talk about one thing and write about another thing on the blackboard at the same time. A third thing I can do is daydream about what I'm going to do after class. My wife says it's a bad sign."
-Van Beek, CS 486
Prof: "Pick a crime."
Student: "Murder."
Prof: "That's a good one."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"You know, there's one crime that's worst than murder: plagiarism."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"We want to find the axioms. Well, that's the royal 'we'. I want to find the axioms."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"An example of independent variables is the probability that you will eat sushi tonight, given that there were tainted fish and a bunch of people died. No, wait..."
-Van Beek, CS 486
(after asking a quesiton and getting no response)
"Maybe you're all reeling from your assignment 1 marks. Or maybe you're all angry at me. Well, the beauty of the system is that the TA marked assignment 1, so you can't be angry at me."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"When I was younger, I used to worry that chalk dust was carcinogenic, like asbestos. But then I realised that there were a lot of old profs, so I stopped worrying."
-Van Beek, CS 486
"How many of you have a girlfriend? Well, this real-time course will fix that by the time this term is over."
-Cormack, CS 452