Quotes

• Besides Homer, Derek Walcott is the poet I know best.

  Richard Sacks in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2010-03-24

• I WIN! I WIN!! I WIIIIIINNNNN!!!!

  Daniel Callahan in Music Humanities (W1123) on 2010-07-12

• After noticing the starving tiger cubs...the Buddha did what ANY OF US would do in that situation...climbed a nearby tree and hurled himself to his death for their supper.

  Michael Como in Buddhism: East Asian (RELI V2608) on 2009-02-05

• I know you are laughing at my mustache! What else would you be laughing at? That robot? He's not funny! That mustache, now that's funny.

  Shree Nayar in Computer Vision (COMS W4731) on 2010-04-28

• Things get more objective if there's money involved.

  Akeel Bilgrami in Methods and Problems of Philosophical Thought (PHIL C1010) on 2010-01-28

• There's always some philosopher working a Saturday job who'd like to point out that Aristotle really didn't say such and such.

  Akeel Bilgrami on 2010-02-09

• I am trying to DEFEND externalism, DAMN IT!

  Akeel Bilgrami in Methods and Problems of Philosophical Thought (PHIL C1010) on 2010-04-04

• Well, this has been a sheer delight. Have nice lives.

  Samuel Moyn in Historical Origins of Human Rights (HIST W3926) on 2010-04-30

• What am I trying to say? ...I don't know what I'm trying to say.

  Ovidiu Savin in Intro to Modern Analysis II (MATH V4062) on 2010-03-18

• Oh goodness, now I'm frothing at the mouth about this, aren't I? [In reference to discussion of an area of complexity theory. Rocco is an extremely calm Canadian]

  Rocco Servedio in Introduction to Computational Complexity (COMS W4236) on 2010-03-09

• IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!

  Daniel Callahan in Music Humanities (W1123) on 2010-03-03

• 别跟女人說你想吃她的豆腐

  Qiuyu Tan in Elementary Chinese I (N) (CHNS C1101) on 2010-04-14

• Let's put some important dates on the board. What is that? A calendar? I don't need a calendar. I am so smart! I. am. so. smart.

  Shree Nayar in Computer Vision (COMS W4731) on 2010-04-20

• The fifth doctor said 'no' because his nuts were being eaten by a squirrel.

  Kathleen Knight in Mass Media and American Democracy (POLS BC3335) on 2010-04-27

• Firms buy computers to increase their labor productivity. But people do not. People buy computers so that they can look at pictures of cathedrals and other monuments.

  Xavier Sala-i-Martin in Intermediate Macroeconomics (W3213) on 2009-11-17

• Neutrons don’t last very long at high temperatures…like attractive people at parties. Somebody GRABS them.

  James Applegate in Beyond the Solar System (ASTR 1404) on 2010-04-29

• I love [‘The Rock’ starring Nicholas Cage] because it’s one of the only movies where there is a chemist who carries a gun. He’s a biochemist, which is like the dark side to organic chemistry.

  Scott Snyder in Organic Chemistry II (C3444) on 2010-05-04

• To be successful, you don't have to do the things other people can't do. You have to do the things other people won't do.

  Thomas Roma in Photo I on 2009-10-15

• no ideas but in things (william carlos williams)

  Thomas Roma in Photo I on 2009-09-09

• the figure a poem makes, the figure is the same as it is for love. (robert frost)

  Thomas Roma in Photo I on 2009-09-09

• Why do we need to have such visible losers [on TV]? It's just mean.

  Mark Carnes in The United States 1940-1975 (HIST BC3413) on 2010-05-03

• If the gods were going to build someone up for hubris, they made it deliciously inescapable.

  Mark Carnes in The United States 1940-1975 (HIST BC3413) on 2010-03-29

• So, is it fascist? [on the Aeneid]

  Kathleen Smith on 2010-02-04

• How does a mathematician put out a fire? Well, assume a fire hydrant.

  David Bayer in Introduction to Modern Algebra I (MATH W4041) on 2010-04-29

• I don't think this concept that Lit Hum is all about white Europeans is very good. St. Augustine might have been black, we don't know. And the Russians, you must not know your Russian history, are always having an East or West identity crisis. This is an absurd proposition.

  Judith Wermuth-Atkinson in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2010-04-22

• [On teaching a year-long class]. You're still here and I still know you and it's really strange and also wonderful.

  Andrew Lynn in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2010-04-27

• Reagan's 1984 reelection was very much aided by the perception that he had pulled the economy out of the doldrums, even though there has never been one shred of elephants--elephants?! Elephants!!--that the Republicans had ANYTHING to do with that!!

  Judith Russell in Introduction to American Politics (POLS W1201) on 2010-04-26

• It's all downhill from 1st grade.

  Patrick Gallagher in Complex Variables (MATH V3007) on 2010-04-07

• I've covered a lot of territory. That's all for today.

  Louis Brus in General Chemistry II (C1404) on 2010-04-21

• It is cruel and unusual punishment to buy peanut butter that is smooth but not crunchy

  Jeffrey Lax in Judicial Politics (POLS W3210) on 2010-04-20