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Nathan C. Burnett, Ph.D.
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"If I don't know your name in four or five weeks, there's something wrong with you."
--Prof. L. Ni, CSE 498 (Collaborative Design), Michigan State University
"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the
worst."
--Thomas Paine
"...difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects
perform the office of a common censor over each other. Is uniformity
attainable? Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the
introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned;
yet we have not advanced an inch towards uniformity. What has been the
effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half
hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth."
--Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman
Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant
Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church."
--Thomas Paine
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere
in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths,
Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in
Christianity."
--John Adams
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world,
and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming
feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
--Thomas Jefferson
"In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty;
he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for
protection of his own."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio Spofford, 1814
"The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall
govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule
it by fictitious miracles?"
--John Adams
"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it
does not support itself so that its professors are obliged to call for the
help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
--Ben Franklin
"If it's funky, we do it."
--George Clinton
"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity
been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places,
pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in
both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
--James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785
"For more than a decade, Thatcher and her handbag ruled Britannia, and her formidable purse became both a symbol of her conservative philosophy and a dreaded irritant to political foes. "
--Associated Press
"Why don't we start? The handbag is here."
--Nicholas Ridley, refering to Margaret Thatcher's purse during a committee meeting in which Thatcher was absent
"Wouldn't it be marvelous if I turned out to be a homosexual?"
--Stewie Griffin, The Family Guy
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it."
--Voltaire
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
--The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"What do you care what other people think?"
--Richard Feynman
"I'm old, I'm falling apart."
--Justice Thurgood Marshall, when asked why he was retiring from the Supreme Court of the United States
"The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
"
--William Safire
"Every man is my equal in that I can learn from him."
--Benjamin Franklin
"Drink to me."
--Pablo Picasso, Last words
"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start
wars, etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe
that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
--Douglas Adams
"Not all those that wander are lost."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
"Be nice to your children, for they will choose your rest home.
"
--Phyllis Diller
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
"
--Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
"
--Bjarne Stroustrup
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
"
--Paul Erdos
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
"
--Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
"
--Isaac Asimov
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
"
--Carl Sagan
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of
tapes hurtling down the highway."
--Andrew S. Tannenbaum, Computer Networks, Third edition (1996)
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
"
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
"
--Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I
know it is wrong."
--Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
"
--Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
"I would have made a good Pope."
--President Richard M. Nixon
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
"
--John von Neumann (1903-1957)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
"
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
"
--Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"I am become death, shatterer of worlds."
-- - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967), citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
"
--Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"Nobody believes I'm bisexual"
--Button found on the floor of Club Paradise, Lansing, Michigan
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
--Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.
"
--Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski , when asked in court what his current profession was
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
"
--Voltaire (1694-1778) , on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."
--Seymoure Cray (1925-1996), when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the
lines were not so dominant.
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
--Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
--Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) , when was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
"If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold."
--Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting opinion, Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
"The job of the Vice President is a daily check of the health of the President, and attending the funerals of third world dictators."
--Senator John McCain
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
--Rene Descartes
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. "
--Douglas Adams
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design
something completely foolproof is to underestimate
the ingenuity of complete fools."
--Douglas Adams
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. "
--Woody Allen
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent
revolution inevitable."
--John F. Kennedy, March 12, 1962
"To know recursion, you must first know recursion."
--Anonymous
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end."
--Semisonic, Closing Time
"It's a grad class, so I don't have to say the truth."
--Prof. Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin - Madison, CS760, Machine Learning
"I dissent."
--Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States, dissenting opinion, Bush v. Gore
"There is no evidence whatsoever that extradition to face
life in prison without release of parole provides a lesser
deterrent to those seeking a 'safe haven' than the death
penalty."
--The Supreme Court of Canada
"It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves
honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings."
--M.K. Ghandi
"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake
of another man nor ask him to live for mine."
--Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
--Confucius (551-497 BC)
"An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that
there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the
evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on
the were-wolf question."
--John McCarthy
"It's good to be useful. So many people are purely decorative in this world."
--Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion
"it is never a crime to speak
up for the poor, the helpless or the ill; it is
never a crime to tell the truth; it is never a
crime to demand justice; it is never a crime to
teach people their rights; it is never a crime to
struggle for a just peace. It is never a crime. It
is always a duty."
--U.S. Rep. Joe Moakley, D-Mass.
"Miracles are just outliers"
--P. Brenner
"When someone waives their genitalia at you, you don't
automatically assume they're an officer of the law."
--George Micheal
"We are the four luckiest guys ever to walk the Earth in
eight inch heals."
--KISS
"I think it just pushed him over that line from excessively
wierd to weird weird."
--Lorraine Ali, music journalist, on Prince's name change
"Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of
Eden--only the heterosexual couple was expelled.
"
--Edward Carpenter
"The military ban has gone from a "No way" issue to an "Oh
shit" issue in Congress."
--U.S. Representative Barney Frank, D-Mass.
"Two guys, one shopping cart, fresh pasta, you figure it out."
--Delta Burke as Suzanne Sugarbaker Goff Dent Stonecipher, Designing Women
"The heart has reasons the mind is unaware of."
--Pascal
"The final battle against intolerance is to be fought--not in the chambers of any legislature--but in the hearts of men."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower, Campaign Speech. Los Angeles. CA October 19. 1956
"You are not the sum of what you consume."
--KMFDM, Dogma
"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy of despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority."
--United States Supreme Court, Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2, 120-21 (1866)
"You can't do a twenty minute talk without content."
--Tim Denehy
"Most good things in life hurt at first."
--Prof. Bart Miller, University of Wisconsin - Madison, CS739 Distributed Systems
"The difference between the space shuttle and a brick is the flight control system."
--Prof. Bart Miller, University of Wisconsin - Madison, CS739 Distributed Systems
"BYE BYE!"
--John McLaughlin, The McLaughlin Group
"Well, one doesn't *rush* scotch."
--William Annis
"There is no permanent place in the world for ugly
mathematics."
--G.H. Hardy, A Mathematicians Apology, 1940
"Don't use math words."
--John Bent
"The search for truth is the central duty of the University, but truth will not be found if the scholar is not free, it will not be understood if the student is not free, it will not be used if the citizen is not free."
--The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin, Resolution of December 8, 1956
"Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state university of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found."
--The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1894
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of
strength, and bid defiance to the laws our country."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1816
"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."
--Tim Berners-Lee, July 1996
"You can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
--They Might Be Giants
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened."
--Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation."
--The Rt. Hon. Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, 1967
"Given infinitely many pairs of shoes, an easy rule that serves to pick one shoes from each pair is to choose the right shoe. If we are given infinitely many pairs of socks, however, the axiom of choice is needed..."
--Martin Isaacs, Algebra
"I'd rather not stick my penis in a communal porn store measuring device."
--Ryan Donnelly
"Il faut aller voir." (We must go and see for ourselves.)
--Jacques-Yves Cousteau
"Define Cher."
--Erik Paulson, Response given to the idea that Cher will return, in some form, despite having just done a "Farewell Tour"
"I'd do questionable. It's Monday."
--Anonymous Gay Man, After seeing a gentlemen of "questionable" attractiveness walk by the window.
"I deplore referendums, and I’m not surprised when I look back at history that they were the favourite governing device of Mussolini and Hitler."
--Chris Patten, EU External Relations Commissioner
"The notion of provability has nothing to do with making sense."
--Prof. Ken Kunen, Math 770, Foundations of Mathematics
"Frankness in good spirit is a measure of friendship."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, addressing the Canadian House of Commons, July 9, 1958
"We are opposed to the excessive use of money in campaigns. It is the weapon of special interests. It is the instrument of evil. It debauches manhood and corrupts the electorate. It serves every bad cause and embarrasses every good one."
--Robert M. La Follette, Sr., 1910
"Marriages fall apart on account of our disrespect of the institution as reflected in the TV reality shows such as Who Wants to Marry My Dad? and permitting an Elvis impersonator to preside over a marriage between two individuals who met the previous evening."
--Rep. Michael Skindell, D-Lakewood, member of the Ohio House of Representatives on the occasion of the signing of "super-DOMA"
"I believe in equal human rights, before the law, for all human beings, and race, gender, disability, class or sexual orientation should not be a factor under the law. Even though we live under the law in a secular democratic society, religious groups must still be able to maintain their spiritual and moral option to either give or withhold a religious or sacred blessing to such unions. However, the government should not have that option. It must affirm the human and legal rights of everyone."
--Reverend Al Sharpton
"Dear, if you want tenure, you're going to have to learn how to spell."
--Ryan Kinkade
"On-line communications technology is akin to the Wild West of the 19th century. To best settle this new frontier, we should unleash American know-how and ingenuity."
--Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO), USIA Electronic Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, October 1997
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
--Richard Feynman, Last words
"Your actions speak so loud I can't hear a word you're saying."
-- Bad Religion, I Want to Conquer the World
"Strength and wisdom are not opposing values."
--Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about."
--Douglas Noel Adams (1952-2001)
"But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost
in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I
can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
"
--Richard Feynman
"Exposition, criticism, appreciation is work for
second-rate minds."
--G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology, 1940
"Do or do not. There is no try."
--Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
"One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we
know them today, immediately obtain an understanding
of anything much."
--Richard Feynman
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius
has its limits."
--Maxmillian J. Kieba
"There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of
success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation
of a new system."
--Nicolo Machievelli
"The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no
man living with the power to endanger the public liberty."
--John Adams
"Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's
technology."
--Karl Marx
"The right to be heard does not include the right to be
taken seriously."
--H. H. Humphrey
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and
convolutions of Einstein's brain than the near certainty
that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton
fields and sweatshops"
--Stephen J. Gould
"Religion is all bunk."
-- Thomas Edison
"Supreme excellence of generalship consists of breaking the
enemy's resistance without fighting."
--Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"The Philosophers have only INTERPRETED the world
in various ways; the point, however, is to CHANGE
it."
--Karl Marx
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its
opponents and making them see the light, but rather because
its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows
up that is familiar with it."
--Max Planck
"Science is a differential equation.
Religion is a boundary condition."
--Alan Turing
"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
--Publius Syrus
"Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the
field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands
of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British
oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that
those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the
field, that of course they are many in number, or that,
after all, they are other than the little shrivelled,
meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesom insects of the
hour.
"
--Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
"Art is long, life short, judgement difficult,
opportunity transient."
--Goethe
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Ben Franklin
"War is a useful tool because it is so effective in so many
areas. It stimulates metabolism. It enforces government.
It diffuses genetic strains. It possesses a vitality such
as nothing else in the universe."
--Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
"Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our
continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete
description of the universe we live in."
-- Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies
lavishly than even a tiny army poorly."
--Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"Time is the greatest innovator."
--Francis Bacon
"If it did not seem crazy to talk to oneself, there is not
a day when I would ont be heard growling at myself,
'confounded fool!'"
--Montaigne
"Any damn fool can die for his country."
--George S. Patton
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only
guardian of true liberty."
--James Madison
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him
by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy
against him."
--Jonathan Swift
"L'imagination se lassera plutot de concevoir que la
nature de fournir." (Imagination tires before nature does.)
--Blaise Pascal
"Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat,
when you enter the laboratory. But put it on again, as
you put on your overcoat."
--Claude Bernard
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
--Dark Helmet, Spaceballs
"It [science] is not done for the sake of application. It
is done for the sake of what is found out."
--Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
"Why work for a living when you can learn with a passion?"
-- Unknown
"I don't believe in that bullshit."
--Jacques Cousteau
"If there is a God, he is a malign thug."
--Mark Twain
"That's so 20th Century when an advertisement gets a round
of applause."
--David Bowie
"Two tears in a bucket, mother fuck it."
--Lady Chablis
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to
forgo their use."
--Galileo Galilei
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason,
than that of blind-folded fear."
--Thomas Jefferson
"I wish they would only take me as I am."
--Vincent Van Gogh, Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh
"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
--Ambrose Bierce
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
--Ambrose Bierce
"I laugh, and my laughter is not within me;
I burn, and the burning is not seen outside."
- N. Machiavelli
"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the
Church."
--Ferdinand Magellan
"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
--Carl Sagan
"The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest."
--Thomas Penfield Jackson, United States District Judge, United States vs. Microsoft Corporation, Findings of Fact
"History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure."
--Justice Thurgood Marshall, Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. (1989)
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
--Albert Einstein
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"When I was a child, my mother
said to me, 'If you become a
soldier you'll be a general. If you
become a monk you'll end up as
the pope.' Instead I became a
painter and wound up as
Picasso."
--Pablo Picasso
"A single death is a tragedy; a
million deaths is a statistic."
--Joseph Stalin
"We've all heard that a million
monkeys banging on a million
typewriters will eventually
reproduce the entire works of
Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the
Internet, we know this is not true."
--Robert Wilensky
"There is only one success -- to
be able to spend your life in your
own way."
--Christopher Morley
"You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much
progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a
majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and
using an ancient book written by ignorant [patriarchal] nomads as a guide."
-- Anonymous
"You only have power over people
as long as you don't take
everything away from them. But
when you've robbed a man of
everything he's no longer in your
power -- he's free again."
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Since love and fear can hardly
exist together, if we must choose
between them, it is far safer to be
feared than loved. "
--Niccolo Machiavelli
"I can be expected to look for truth
but not to find it."
--Denis Diderot
"Sometimes I think we're alone in
the universe. Sometimes I think
we're not. In both cases the
thought is equally shocking."
--Arthur C. Clarke
"If there were no God, it would be
necessary to invent him."
--Voltaire
"I have a dream that my four little
children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their
character."
--The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"A revolution is not the same as
inviting people to dinner .... A
revolution is an insurrection, an
act of violence by which one class
overthrows another."
--Mao Tse-tung
"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now
and then, is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as
storms in the physical."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Truth is the highest thing that
man may keep."
--Geoffrey Chaucer
"Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you, I spoke to God this morning
and he don't like you."
-- Ozzy Osbourne, I Don't Want to Change the World
"There is only one success -- to
be able to spend your life in your
own way."
--Christopher Morley
"If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong damn lane."
--Joe Bob Briggs, TNT Monstervision
"I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that
Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of
ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than
any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore
there is no reason to consider any of them."
--Bertrand Russell, The Quotable Bertrand Russell (ed. Lee Eisler, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1993), p. 138.
"Drop an axiom. You probably just made it up, anyway."
-- Greg Burnett
"Matters of fact...are very stubborn things."
--Matthew Tindal
"God thinks he's all that and a bag of chips."
--David Bowie
"The entire purpose of DOS is to maintain compatibility with the stone age."
--Dr. Jacob Gore, CS 132 (Programming in C), Eastern New Mexico University
"No, DOS is evil"
--Dr. Jacob Gore, CS 123 (Introduction to Computer Science), Eastern New Mexico University
"Well it's Friday. They can't take that away from us."
--Dr. Douglas Jackson, April 15, 1997 (tax day), Eastern New Mexico University
"You don't want a routine that leaves ashes and burning buildings behind"
--Dr. Douglas Jackson, CS 257 (Data Structures), Eastern New Mexico University
"I respectfully recommend that the statute not be reenacted."
-- Kenneth Starr,
Testifying to the House of Representatives
regarding reenactment of the Independent
Counsel Statute.
1999
"That is SO wrong."
--Dr. Douglas Jackson, CS 257 (Data Structures), Eastern New Mexico University
"You almost know this well enough to pass."
--Dr. Bill Calton, MATH 131 (Calculus II), Eastern New Mexico University
"It depends on what system you're using."
--Mark Brehob, CPS 320 (Computer Organization), Michigan State University
"Mumble mumble, wave wave"
--Mark Brehob, CPS 320 (Computer Organization), Michigan State University
"No, no, I try not to fall into that trap."
--Prof. P.K. Pathak, Michigan State University, when asked if he wanted Office 97 installed on his PC
"That can be turned into a formal induction if you like painful dentistry."
--Prof. L. Sonneborn, MTH 481 (Discrete Mathematics), Michigan State University
"Now that you've seen that, it's no longer a trick, now it's a method."
--Prof. L. Sonneborn, MTH 481 (Discrete Mathematics), Michigan State University
"There are three kinds of computer scientists, those who can count, and those who can't."
--Prof. R. Reid, CPS 420 (Computer Architecture), Michigan State University
"Any questions about computers?"
--Prof. R. Reid, CPS 420 (Computer Architecture), Michigan State University
"Never trust anybody in mathematics."
--Prof. V.P. Sreedharan, MTH 425 (Complex Analysis), Michigan State University
"the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the
Christian religion."
-- Treaty of Tripoli,
Passed by the United States Senate,
1797
"L'imagination se lassera plutot de concevoir que la
nature de fournir." (Imagination tires before nature does.)
--Blaise Pascal
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