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jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Nov 21 17:19:59 1987
[0001] (5 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 03/22/84 2009.7 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Reason for this meeting
This meeting has been established to record all those wonderful things
that your professors say that have other (more amusing) connotations.
Dave Smith and I should have a blast with it, but others are welcome to
participate. Past quotes may be recorded if known to be accurate first
hand. Suggestions for additional participants are welcome.
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[0002] (3 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 03/22/84 2026.6 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: 21.351 Roman History
"Then he married Calpurnia ... the ins and outs are not clear."
-- Prof. H.A.T.O. Reiche (3/22/84 10:35)
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[0003] (3 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 03/22/84 2030.7 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: 18.302 Partia; Differential Equations
"We will have to consider doing an odd extension."
-- Prof. Debbie Sulsky (2/22/84 ca. 10:30)
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[0004] (5 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 03/22/84 2033.3 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: 8.08 Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics
"There are (N + f - 1)! / [N! (f - 1)!] ways to permute my balls."
-- Prof Baranger (2/17/84 12:51)
Yes, that's an exact quote.
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[0005] (7 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 03/22/84 2139.2 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: 8.04 Quantum Mechanics
"By geometry, ... [pause] ... Well, just by looking at it actually."
-- Prof. N. Berker (2/14/83 11:10)
See, they don't all have to be filthy-minded. This one I found in an
old notebook. I will continue the archive search when I have more time
to waste.
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[0006] (3 lines) Rochlis.Multics 03/22/84 2344.2 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: 8.02 Physics
" i = vr "
Bernard Feld, 1982
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[0007] (3 lines) DMSmith.StudentAD 03/23/84 1938.8 est Fri Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Prolixity
"The third chapter is rather abstruse and obscure in its prolixity. . ."
--Prof. Benedek, 8.08 Recitation, late Feb.
'84
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[0008] (15 lines) DMSmith.StudentAD 03/23/84 1946.4 est Fri Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Incompetent chemistry teachers
"If the concentration of the products over the concentration of the
reactants is less than zero, the reaction prefers to go to the right."
--Prof. Klaus Biemann, 5.41 lecture, Feb.
'82 "Of course, less than one, not zero".
--same, two minutes later, when a student
pointed
out that two positive concentrations could
never
be divided to yield a negative number.
"Well, all right, it goes to the left."
--15 minutes later, after the combined
arguments of
the whole class convinced him he had the
direction
backwards, too.
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[0009] (1 line) DMSmith.StudentAD 04/01/84 2300.7 est Sun Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Re: Incompetent chemistry teachers
Boy, does that formatting lose . . .
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[0010] (3 lines) Lippard.Multics 04/02/84 1515.2 est Mon Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: ASU CSC210 Data Structures
"We want to take these components and see if we can grope them--er,
group them into sets".
-- Ms. Vicki Walker, 4/2/84 10:57
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[0011] (3 lines) DMSmith.StudentAD 04/02/84 1526.7 est Mon Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: 8.08 Statistical and Quantum Physics
"The partition function is an animal which was invented in chapter 6.
It is not a fundamental animal, but it is a convenient animal."
-Prof. Barranger 4/2/84 12:10pm
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[0012] (3 lines) DMSmith.StudentAD 04/02/84 1529.6 est Mon Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Re: 8.08 Statistical and Quantum Physics
Compare the previous transaction to number 4, and notice that Daniel
doesn't know the name of the course he's taking and I can't spell the
name of the professor.
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[0013] (6 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 04/03/84 1713.6 est Tue Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Re: 8.08 Statistical and Quantum Physics
If you look at the other transactions by me, you will also note that few
of them have the "right" name for the course. I thought that what I was
putting was more understandable to people who aren't familiar with the
course. For example, "Roman History" is better than "Ancient World II".
Is a bar-ranger like a forest ranger who hangs out in bars?
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[0014] (1 line) DMSmith.StudentAD 04/10/84 1720.8 est Tue Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Re: 8.08 Statistical and Quantum Physics
I don't buy that excuse for one minute. Not one minute.
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[0015] (3 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 04/26/84 1633.9 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: 8.08 Thermo and Stat. Mech.
"that silly electron ... well, it's not so smart as a tiger ..."
- Prof. Benedek, 12:35 p.m., 4/26/84
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[0016] (5 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 05/02/84 1258.6 est Wed Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: 8.08 Stat. Mech. & Thermo.
"The atoms are very repulsive."
-- Prof. Baranger, 5/2/84 12:12
How rude!
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[0017] (6 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 05/03/84 1523.1 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: 8.08 Recitation
"Tarzan knew E=3NkT even before Einstein. Jane didn't know; he had to
tell her ... that's what marriage is all about."
-- Prof. Benedek, 5/3/84 12:53
(after a long discussion of how even in the jungle you need to know
about specific heats so that you can warm up your coconut milk)
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[0018] (1 line) Morgan.SIPBOLC 05/03/84 1524.9 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Re: 8.08 Recitation
ing today. Watch out for Dave's contribution in this forum.
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[0019] (1 line) Margolin.Multics 05/03/84 1532.1 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Re: 8.08 Recitation
Something's missing in [0018]. Like the first line.
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[0020] (5 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 05/03/84 1534.0 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Re: 8.08 Recitation
Yes indeed... hmmm... I am afraid I must blame the video system for
that, probably...
It should have begun: Prof. Benedek, aka Cheshire Cat Grandad, was
being particularly weird/amus
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[0021] (4 lines) DMSmith.StudentAD 05/04/84 1248.5 est Fri Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Re: 8.08 Recitation
"The partition function has to be clear to you. . . like honey has to be
clear. Or maple syrup. It will work much better if you think of it as
maple syrup."
-Prof. "CCG" Benedek
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[0022] (4 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 05/17/84 2304.8 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: 21.351 Roman History
"Christianity is like venereal disease."
-- Prof. H. A. T. O. Reiche
5/17/84 10:45 or so
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[0023] (2 lines) Morgan.SIPBOLC 05/17/84 2306.1 est Thu Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: Re: 21.351 Roman History
This was in reference to the role of the new religion in the fall of the
Roman Empire. "No headlines in The Tech!"
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[0024] (2 lines) Lippard.Multics 11/28/84 1725.2 est Wed Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: ASU CSC340 Structures of Programming Languages
"It is used for general stimulation."
-- Dr. Lorna Cheng, 11/26/84 11:26, speaking of SIMULA
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[0025] (6 lines) Lippard.Multics 02/04/85 2314.3 est Mon Professors'_Quoteboard
Subject: ASU PHY116 University Physics (E&M)
"When multiple metal atoms get together, their valence electrons run
wild, like kids in a hippie commune."
-- substitute for Dr. Ignatious Tsong, 01/31/85 7:44
"This is a solid metal potato."
-- ditto, 01/31/85 7:47
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