| Professor
Agha - CS 321 Programming Languages and Compilers |
| "It turned
out the guy was a football player. You know, Michigan football
players, I don't know what their average IQ is, but..."
(Agha, 1-14-02). |
| "It's okay
to think big, but don't mess up while trying to think big"
(Agha, 1-14-02). |
| "But computer
scientists do not shoot each other, they just write nasty papers about
each other" (Agha, 1-14-02). |
| "If you
don't know sh, you ought to learn it, or else Bill Gates will be
corrupting your brain" (Agha, 1-14-02). |
| "If there
is intelligent life, they would be sending signals, like EM waves,
otherwise they are not intelligent" (Agha, 1-14-02). |
| "By the
way, this lecture is very light, it's to fool you into thinking the
course is very easy. It's for inspiration, perspiration comes
later" (Agha, 1-14-02). |
| "Be naive
and be unrealistic, then you will get somewhere" (Agha, 1-18-02). |
| "If I gave
a bad lecture, I'm trying to inspire you" (Agha, 1-18-02). |
| "You guys
should read Computer Survey because I am the editor-in-chief" (Agha,
2-13-02) |
| "The
difference between procedural and functional programming is the
difference between church and state. You want to keep the church
away from the state" (Agha, 2-25-02). |
| "Assembly
language isn't brain damage, it causes brain damage to humans" (Agha,
4-10-02) |
| "This
lecture won a Turing Award; it was a good lecture, it mentions me,
so... Most guys [authors] are older, but I'm still productive" (Agha,
4-19-02) |
|
Mattox Beckman - CS 321 Programming Languages and Compilers |
| "If I press
backspace in vi, bad things can happen, so that's why I use emacs"
(Mattox, 1-25-02). |
| "That's
what LL means, no one is going to ask you that, unless yo play trivial
pursuit, geeky CS version"
(Mattox, 2-1-02). |
| "Is
everyone "following me"? I like bad puns <snickers from the
students>"
(Mattox talking about FOLLOW(E), 2-6-02). |
| "Now when
you play Trivial Pursuit, CS, genius edition, you'll get this question
right!"
(Mattox, 3-6-02). |
| "I like
the anonymous function syntax. It's more pure"
(Mattox, 3-6-02). |
| "You tell
your slave, or your student - almost as smart as you are, to prove
P(n-1)"
(Mattox, 3-11-02). |
| "That's
why this song is so annoying. By the time you get to 7 or 8,
you're not even half done yet"
(Mattox on the 12 days of Christmas, 3-11-02). |
| "So you
actually have 3 weeks, because giving people work over break is evil
<everyone claps>"
(Mattox, 3-13-02). |
| "This is
where people's hands start to blow up"
(Mattox on recursive procedures with no base case, 4-3-02). |
| "So
Professor Agha talked about unification. <class is silent>
Deer staring into headlights, all of you!!"
(Mattox, 4-22-02). |
| "Of course
it would be weird if Jane was a father...you could say Prolog is
either very stupid or very progressive"
(Mattox, 4-22-02). |
| "There it
works...Prolog is stupid, it'll believe anything"
(Mattox, 4-26-02). |
|
Professor Vaidya - ECE 497 Wireless Networks |
| "I'm very flexible
when it comes to deadlines. Unless it's the end of the semester,
then I'm not flexible. But one day here, one day there, I don't
mind" (Vaidya, 2-7-02). |