"Don't worry, as the semester goes on, the room will become bigger."
> Context: People dropping the course
"If you see a long black bar, it means that the program is already doomed."
> Context: Bug thermometer.
"If you're wondering what this is, this is the program that catches plagiarism in our assignments."
> i.e., Moss
"Where's the TA?"
(Student: "He's not here today.")
"Good! So we'll give him work."
"Has anyone read this?" -- the paper
(Student: "I opened it.")
"That's okay: opening it is progress."
"Good that I'm not taking attendance today."
> Context: Low attendance
> Someone suggests that the reason is Georgia primaries.
"I think the future of this country is more important than [lecture]." /s
"What if precondition is false? Then you can say anything, okay? You can say, 'Donald Drumpf is President.'"
"I think it's better if you do it [discuss something] offline [meaning, outside class]. Try Piazza, confuse the guys in the OMS course."
"I do have much worse slides, but I don't want to give you bad slides at the end of the semester, because that's what you'll remember."
"You're giving me really good exam questions. The next exam is going to be very fun. When I sit alone I can't come up with good exam questions."
"Compilers guys at the back, your advisor has told me to ask you questions."
"What the compiler is doing is asking you to put in more text, and then it makes fun of you."
> Context: Incompatible type errors.
> Trying out a marker. Doesn't write.
"I just bought this new."
> It finally starts writing.
"Now it doesn't erase."
"I'm going to use brackets whenever I want, okay?"
> Context: Bracket spamming lambda calculus terms for clarity.
"This TA of mine has really messed up."
> This should be the anthem of the course.
> Context: He wants to hold a class during dead week, when instructors are forbidden to hold classes.
"I don't want to ask [the Dean of Students]..."
"After this lesson, maybe some of you will stop using SQL and start using Datalog."
(Big Mac says something to the effect that he specifically avoided taking SQL.)
"What is this? You don't even know SQL?"
> (Parrying questions about the assignment...)
"See guys, I don't even know what this assignment is, okay? I am operating in a parallel universe."
> (Writing down student's answer on the board. Student apparently thinks the fact that he's writing it down means it's right.)
"I don't know, I'm just following orders. I stop thinking after 4 o'clock."
"For this you have to take an exceedingly boring class that a colleague of mine named Bill Harris teaches. He will bore you to death... Have you taken it? What is it called?... Don't remember? See, this confirms how boring it is."
"I had a colleague who used to write all letters the same... I am slowly becoming like him."
"We all know that 14 is not equal to 22."
"One guy there woke up from his nap; the other guy then went to take a nap."
"That guy took a nap, but he still knows the answer."
"Null is your friend."
"Next time a hardware engineer tells you, 'We're dealing with big state spaces,' tell them we're dealing with even bigger."
"Someone asked on Piazza, Why does it use these numbers? Guys, this is magic. These solvers are black magic. So don't ask why [they use these numbers]."
"These Office guys believe they run the whole of Microsoft. They won't listen to anyone who comes along and says he can make office more secure."
0 comments :
Post a Comment