Quotes

• Empty or pretentious written behavior will not be enforced.

  Carl Hart in Drugs and Behavior (PSYC W2460) on 2013-04-10

• How many of you know anyone who’s smoked crack? Two of you? You all need to get out more.

  Carl Hart in Drugs and Behavior (PSYC W2460) on 2013-04-10

• Do you know what RTFM stands for? It's Read The F**king Manual... I RTFMed it and got the receiver working.

  David Vallancourt in Art of Engineering (Gateway Lab) (E1102) on 2013-04-09

• It is not general yet it is, somehow, fairly general.

  Clement Hongler in Analysis and Optimization (MATH V2500) on 2013-03-10

• This is the hardest homework of the year. However, it is not impossible.

  Clement Hongler in Analysis and Optimization (MATH V2500) on 2013-04-04

• If it looks and smells like a -4, then it is a -4.

  David Vallancourt in Intro to Electrical Engineering (ELEN 1201) on 2013-04-01

• You should never just trust Columbia..... RULE NUMBER ONE!!!!!!!

  Liza Knapp in Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy (Literature Humanities) (HUMA C1001) on 2013-03-27

• (while talking about proof by contradiction): For example, if you study biology, you know there are no dragons. But how do you prove there are no dragons? You can't. In mathematics, to prove there are no dragons or that something is not true, you use proof by contradiction.

  Nam  Le in Calculus III (MATH V1201) on 2013-03-27

• What does it mean to be half pregnant? (on whether values can be "half reducible" to natural properties)

  Akeel Bilgrami in Philosophy of Language and Mind (PHIL V3252) on 2013-03-12

• If you ever have to get a tattoo, make it the equation "e^i*pi + 1 = 0". You won't regret it.

  David Vallancourt in Intro to Electrical Engineering (ELEN 1201) on 2013-03-11

• Alright guys the midterm shouldn't be too bad. I just made it. Took it. Got a 100.

  Daniel Rubenstein in Fundamentals of Computer Systems (CSEE W3827) on 2013-03-17

• Incest is relative

  Terence D'Altroy in The Rise of Civilization (ANTH V1008) on 2013-03-11

• How many of you don't know? How many of you say it depends? How many of you have another midterm this week and don't give a shit about any of this?

  Sunil Gulati in Principles of Economics (W1105) on 2013-03-06

• Why would you ever buy a lottery ticket? It's like the stupidest thing. You could be playing angry birds or cut the rope.

  Ioannis Kymissis in Solid-state devices and materials (ELEN 3106) on 2012-11-07

• I don't know how I came to use this word, 'nifty.' I don't belong to that domain of people who use the word 'nifty.'"

  Anupama Rao in Gender and Empire (HIST BC3803) on 2013-02-28

• I charge him up... or her. I don't know. (In reference to a capacitor during a demo.)

  Michael Shaevitz in General Physics I (PHYS V1201) on 2013-02-18

• You know when some teenager drives up to a stop light with the music blasting. What are they're saying? Fuck you, I EXIST.

  Thomas Roma in Photo I on 2013-02-02

• Could you get naked with Montaigne? I mean look at him!

  Emily Hayman in Literature Humanities (C1002) on 2013-02-26

• I feel like if people brought back the term "anxious solicitude" I will know that my job here has been worthwhile

  Evan Neely in Contemporary Civilization (C1101) on 2013-02-27

• ‎Yes, giving birth is painful. The hole is not very large

  Evan Neely in Contemporary Civilization (C1101) on 2013-02-27

• Prof.: I have two small kids, I don't have time to watch new movies like Argo. Student: I'll babysit for you if I can skip the midterm. Prof.: Taking the midterm will be easier than babysitting my kids! (International Law class, Spring 2013)

  Tonya Putnam on 2013-02-23

• Proofs on final are hard to grade. 90 percent of lines are about, like, 'Merry Christmas' or 'I'm running out of time!'

  Weizhe Zheng in Linear Algebra (MATH V2010) on 2012-12-19

• I have an ex girlfriend or two who considered themselves much worse off for not getting married to me.

  David Johnston in Justice (POLS W3100) on 2013-02-18

• When something is positively reinforced, behaviors will increase. When something is negatively reinforced, behaviors will decrease.

  Lisa Son in Cognitive Psychology (no lab) on 2013-01-30

• Fornication is widespread. I’ve had experience with this practice myself.

  David Johnston in Justice (POLS W3100) on 2013-02-13

• What was your name again?

  Samuel Oak in Pokenomics (ECON W3026) on 2012-10-13

• Did anybody see this... ["this" mostly refers to some deep connection or obscure philosophical concepts]

  Patricia Kitcher in Kant (PHIL V3251) on 2013-02-11

• Thomas [Edison], the shit that he was, was a remarkable man who created things nobody had even imagined at his time.

  Alan Brinkley in America Between the Wars, 1918-45 (HIST W3649) on 2013-02-11

• [In response to a student's question about what indigenous populations thought about their histories being interpreted by people in the field] You see? This is EXACTLY why we need to be around students. You know what? Nobody FUCKING knows what they think about it, because nobody ever thought to FUCKING ask them. A brilliant question, but that's the answer."

  Brian Boyd in Introduction to 21st Century Archaeology (ANTH 2028) on 2013-01-30

• Imagine two soft squishy balls collide with each other--oh wait....that sounds bad..."

  Robert Beer in General Chemistry II (C1404) on 2013-01-23