Interesting Quotes

This section of the newsletter lists interesting quotes instructors and peers have made such as:

Fall Quarter '96

"UNIX isn't the only operating system, although it probably should be..."
"So we call the parent process which comes in and kills the child processes. And the one who dies with the most toys wins. Okay, so I think the analogy is actually breaking down about there..."

Spring Quarter '96

Winter Quarter '96

"Well... If all you know how to use is a hammer, then I guess everything looks like a nail."
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
"There are several proof techniques: proof by abundant notation, proof by intimidation, ..."
"[The College of Computing's Artificial Intelligence department] has an incestuous relationship with itself."
"And if Windoze is the future of personal computing, then we should all just shoot ourselves now."

Fall Quarter '95

"...so I can shaft students who are not taking my classes, too."
"If you're a parent, you can have thousands of children and not know who they are."
"If this place had any more character, it would be an ASCII chart." -Allen Belletti
"I was creative before I came to Tech and they turned me into an engineer."
"I doubt if America is the only place where you can get kicked out of school."
"If you're going to be late, show up early."
"It's a free country...there isn't a law against being stupid."
"There's a little bit of geek in all of us."
"You can't spell G-E-E-K without EE."
"C provides all the power and flexibility of assembly language with the readability and debugging capabilities of... assembly language."
"Polynomials are our friends."
"If you don't use abstraction, people will die."

To submit quotes, e-mail Anna Wines at pegasus@cc.gatech.edu. Attributions will only be made if the speaker is the source of the e-mail.