Quotes
"Believe me, Jen. Algebraic Topology is one of the most seductive things
a young mathematician can encounter."
- Nic Teh
"Assuming that given the conditions the statement is true, and assuming the conditions are given,
the statement is true."
- Tom Ventimiglia (tired...while working on COS 341 with me)
"I am an English major."
- Ben Essenburg, after hours of working on Physics
"We have to move on. Brian from the Wa would have wanted it this way."
- Eryck Kratville
"I am sure one could write a Nassau Weekly generating program."
- Charles Melby-Thompson
"What do you call a group of grad students. Would it be a flock, a gaggle, a school...? "
- Joe Barillari
"I like to think I'm like my sofa -- comfortable
to be around, and comfortable being around!"
- Phil Wei
"The German language was designed to frighten the listener into a state of mental numbness,
rendering him the slave of whomever is speaking. "
- Srivas Prasad
"I have not yet found a good book on colloquial ancient Egyptian. "
- Charlie Melby-Thompson
"I think we should have year-round schooling."
- Joel Diamond
"Wow, it was weird to see somebody who mas more obsessed about starting early than I am."
- Tom Ventimiglia
"Consider a cake again, a well-known mathematical object."
- Professor Gowers (Math 215)
"I don't do integrals."
- Peter Meyers (Physics 105)
"This is Math, so nobody can stop us from doing it."
- David Nice (Physics 106)
"This is really easy. All you have to do is understand."
- Rahul Pandharipande (Math 217)
"I am the master of Corel Draw !"
- Hans Halvorson (Philosophy of Physics)
"The proof of this is obvious, where obvious is a mathematical term."
- William Browder (Math 325: Topology)
"There, of course, could be a detector that measures field strength instead of intensity.
But that would require really sexy electronics."
- Prof. Callan (Physics 208: Quantum Mechanics)
