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
- "Anyone ever play Hump the Wumpus?"
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.
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