Quotes

• You use a double accusative with "doceo" (to teach) because in teaching, both the subject and the student are victims.

  James Zetzel on 2010-02-15

• Well...it has been a long time since I have bribed someone.

  Haim Gaifman on 2010-03-09

• You're in the elevator and the cable breaks. What happens? You're so happy cause you get to experience weightlessness before you die.

  Frederik Paerels in Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmologies (ASTR BC1754) on 2010-02-15

• "Gag me with a chainsaw," as Confucius used to say.

  Michael Como in Buddhism: East Asian (RELI V2608) on 2010-02-25

• That's not a good; that's a bad.

  Sunil Gulati in Principles of Economics (W1105) on 2009-11-06

• There's something wrong with our discussion when we can't discuss pornography anymore

  Katherine Biers on 2010-02-25

• Cut out all that literary bullshit.

  David Yerkes in History of the English Language (ENGL W4901) on 2009-12-08

• When St. Peter looks at what I did I don't want her to confuse me with Dick Cheney or something.

  Christia Mercer in History of Philosophy II: Aquinas to Kant (PHIL V2201) on 2010-02-18

• CRYPTOANAL.... I don't know how to spell analysis so let's leave it at that.

  Joseph Traub in Scientific Computation I (COMS W3210) on 2010-02-25

• I'm making it all up, anyway.

  Andrew Lynn in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2010-02-11

• [In Athens] not all men who are friends are also having sex. That would be a very exciting place!

  Andrew Lynn in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2009-10-22

• This is the story of the outlet, the power drill, the extension cord...and the moron.

  David Vallancourt in Intro to Electrical Engineering (ELEN 1201) on 2010-02-03

• I don't want to read Harry Potter and you can't make me!

  Emma Lieber in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2010-02-01

• Macbook Pro, 1; Can of Dr. Pepper, 0.

  David Vallancourt in Intro to Electrical Engineering (ELEN 1201) on 2010-01-20

• Last year, I finally got to use duct tape on ducks.

  James Hone in Mechanics on 2010-01-27

• No questions to the end THANK KU!

  Ted Mosby in Economics (301) on 2009-09-27

• A prostitute's pregnancy is the equivalent of a professor's book

  Frederick Neuhouser in European Social Philosophy (PHIL V3353) on 2010-01-21

• This is the takeaway for the class, when you come upon a bear, sing "Ode to Joy."

  Edward Mendelson in 19th Century English Novel (ENGL S3239) on 2010-01-21

• You pay a great deal of money, so I wear a tie. I won't walk in naked.

  Edward Mendelson in 19th Century English Novel (ENGL S3239) on 2010-01-21

• When you laugh at the bad jokes, I don't believe you when you laugh at the good ones.

  Edward Mendelson in 19th Century English Novel (ENGL S3239) on 2010-01-21

• Intelligence is like pornography: it's impossible to define, but you know it when you see it.

  Salvatore Stolfo in Artificial Intelligence (COMS W4701) on 2010-01-19

• Why are kindergarteners taught to walk during fire drills, you ask? Simple, what you want is a group of rational, walking kindergarteners so the teacher can run around them.

  Peter Bearman in The Social World (SOCI W1000) on 2009-11-24

• There's a lot of suckitude going on here.

  Christia Mercer in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2010-01-12

• [when asked where Anastasia is] We know where she is—she's in the ground.

  Richard Wortman in Imperial Russia 1682-1918 (HIST W3220) on 2009-12-11

• You can't talk about reality without someone getting really upset.

  Edward Mendelson in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2009-09-22

• Most of what the government does is useless. Like car clunkers and providing subsidies to butterfly cages. Therefore we will assume in our model that G is useless.

  Xavier Sala-i-Martin in Intermediate Macroeconomics (W3213) on 2009-12-07

• I would not do Riemann sums if my life depended on it. I would rather die.

  Peter Horn in Calculus I (MATH V1101) on 2009-11-30

• I'm giving Blackie a hard time because I know he likes it. He's a masochist.... That's good, because I'm a sadist.

  David Yerkes in History of the English Language (ENGL W4901) on 2009-12-10

• Fuck Robert E. Lee!

  Richard Billows in Contemporary Civilization (C1101) on 2009-12-08

• I suppose Matt told you yesterday but let me reiterate. If you HAVE to say something that's particularly relevant, please preface this with "my friend..." like "my friend did such and such." This isn't a class to openly discuss everyone's drug use experiences.

  Carl Hart in Drugs and Behavior (PSYC W2460) on 2009-09-16