"I wonder about a spirally poly thingy..." ~Evan
"You mean a poly-bus?" ~Tom
"When I was a kid I had to ride the poly bus." ~Chris C

"One million lambda..." ~Tom 
"Nobody uses one million lambda any more...  then I want... one hundred billion lambda..."~Chris D
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"We are such dorks."~Chris D

"Zero errors found..." ~electric
"GODDAMNIT!!!" ~Carolyn

"Look Brent, It's XML. It does everything and doesn't look like it does anything."~Shimon

"It doesn't get much more emphatic than that without skulls and blood." --Israel 4/23/02

"[ALGOL 60 was] a great improvement over virtually all of its successors." ~Kim Bruce

"In Unix you write probably any combination of 2 letters and something will happen." ~Kim Bruce

"There are nice ways to blow up and there are bad ways to blow up."~Kim Bruce

"Unfortunately, everything depends on everything else."~Kim Bruce

"We'll try to be careful to make sure things don't blow up."~Kim Bruce

"There's some phone company in Europe."~Kim Bruce

"The french are silly people.  I can say that as an antropologist.  If you're french, see me after class."~Peter Just

"Williams students... are absolutely forbidden from offending others... at least while you're sober."~Peter Just

"We're the species that laugh.  Elephants don't laugh."~Peter Just

"Most of them shouldn't be repeated in public.  Such as..."~Peter Just

"They were pretty much kicking the world's ass at the time"~Peter Just re: Britain

"... the promiscuous horde... nowadays we call this college."~Peter Just

"It's the administrative monkeys that really screw things up."~Duane Bailey

"There is a God.  We depend on him for every computational moment."~Duane Bailey

"I think physicists might actually have some important things to say about magnets."~Duane Bailey

"I just can't push enough Adobe through this Photoshop."~Duane Bailey

"It used to be computer science and now it's math.  And everyone knows that math is fake."~Evan

"I think things are always more complex than they are." ~Rabub Abdulhadi, NYU

"This is the Israeli Continuum:  right -------- left.  The Palestineans will not fit on top of it." ~Rabub Abdulhadi, NYU

"printf() is like three semis driving through the building." ~Duane Bailey

"You want to try to keep the printf() to a dull roar."~Duane Bailey

"We could build up essentially all of arithmatic if we were very, very, patient."~Kim Bruce

"Your parents probably told you not to point.  This was good advice."~Kim Bruce, attempting to justify java.

"There is a lot of power to doing this.  Most people use this power to shoot themselves."~Kim Bruce

"With floating point or real numbers, nobody want to know what's going on."~Kim Bruce

"In the middle of class, I did have to scream.  I may have to do that here."~Tom Murtagh, substituting for Kim Bruce

"I could show you Kim's notes, where all the functions are called f, g, and h."~Tom Murtagh

"I have to say the dirty word; efficiency" ~Tom Murtagh

"I just didn't think of the possibility that I could use the same example twice." ~Tom Murtagh

"You should be grateful as you sit there confused."~Tom Murtagh

"When I first saw Kim's notes, I was like WAH!  Pascal records! He's in the dark ages."~Tom Murtagh

"The epistemology of intersubjective understanding... drop that when you're home and your parents will believe you're being educated."~Peter Just

"Relax; it's just college.  It's not real yet."~Peter Just

"We give you four years to fuck up."~Peter Just

"That gave me a certain kind of status despite my youth and obvious stupidity."~Peter Just

"You may have more rice, you may have less rice, you may have good rice, you may have crappy rice, but everybody has rice."~Peter Just

"You should hear the bitching and moaning that goes on in Stetson Hall at the end of the semester when all the papers are in."~Peter Just

"... doesn't mean you get to sit there like an English professor and [rant] endlessly about what does this mean."~Peter Just

"The politically correct term is bonobo"~Peter Just

"I certainly don't want to know how you are; you know- if you're going to give me the organ recital." ~Peter Just

"We release our glottal stops."~Peter Just

"It's a palatellized affricative." ~Peter Just

"When you get into vowels it's a whole new world."~Peter Just

"It drives them goofy"~Peter Just about people that speak Javanese speaking Javanese.

"You're an uncalibratable instrument of data collection"~Peter Just

"The class starts not when the clock has crowed three times"~Peter Just

"[At Williams] you can have these stupid [class] times like 1:10-2:25"~Peter Just

"Adam Smith is really kind of dumb."~Peter Just

"Some would say that the Nuer are kind of Dinka."~Peter Just

"[Kinship] is an interesting subject; one that I spent far too much time learning about in graduate school."~Peter Just

"Why do you think anybody cared about the begats?"~Peter Just Re: Old Testament

"... versus the farmers who are much more boring"~Peter Just Re: old testament herder/farmer conflict.

"There's a tribe of austrailian aboriginees that named themselves after a puddle of dog vomit.  Now there are people I would like to meet."~Peter Just

"What do I have in common with the pimply-faced teenager I see when I look across the counter at macdonalds?  Do I see myself?  No!  Maybe you do."~Peter Just

"Not only will they regard you as an asshole; you'll regard yourself as an asshole"~Peter Just on capitalists in a welfare state.

"There are some real sacrifices necessary to be a capitalist.  You have to be an asshole."~Peter Just

"Wheaton... it's the square root of wessley."~Duane Bailey, on Wheaton college

"It sucks without error."~Duane Bailey, on a transmeta processor running Java

"They're engaging in doublespeak."~Guest lecturer for Sociology 202, describing Saudi Arabia's foreign policy.

"You could call it operation enduring freedom 1.5"~Guest lecturer for Sociology 202, on US presence in Yemen & the Phillippines

"In the private part we give away all the secrets."~Kim Bruce on access restriction in OOL's

"Let's keep going back in time"~Kim Bruce

"Things will always change unless it's a terrible failure"~Kim Bruce

"I'm presuming you all know Object Oriented Languages, or at least Java, very well."~Kim Bruce, probably not realizing what he was saying.

"A mascot you have to be able to pick up and carry in your pickup truck.  I wouldn't want [Josh Ain] anywhere near my pickup truck."~Duane Bailey

"probably symmettry is going to ..." ~Duane Bailey
"Die a horrible, horrible death." ~Evan

"sharing equals friction, so we want to try to avoid that." ~Duane Bailey

"Let's face it; between you and me what's a million years or so?" -Peter Just

"Western art has gone steadily downhill for the last 40,000 years." -Peter Just

"They were just miserable puppies." ~Peter Just re: Neanderthols

"How many manungo nuts can anybody eat, ever?" ~Peter Just

"You're all capitalists.  Did you know that?" ~Peter Just

"You know you're here to be somebody else's diversity."-Peter Just
"Pretty much." ~Obviously "diverse" student.
"And we thank you for that."~Peter Just

"Logical and social coherence are inversely related." - Gellner

"You know what we could do, we could implement monkeys, extend an array of them, and see how long it takes us to get Shakespear." ~Evan

"In Indonesia it's ok to wear two different plaids together, but the colors have to harmonize." ~Peter Just

"Are there water buffalo on your island?" ~Peter Just

"She's just the village wacko who tends to do this every once in a while because- you know... she doesn't have enough potassium in her diet." ~Peter Just

"The socially acceptable greeting is to copulate.  They're my favorite species." ~Peter Just Re: Bonobos

"In my fantasies it was bonobos." ~Peter Just

"If one of them were to eat a big mac, which of course no one should ever do in real life."~Peter Just

"We are the American People.  Duh wha?" ~Peter Just

"Working class people voting for Ronal Reagan.  That's an example of false consciousness."~Peter Just

"You can't have a Republican president without false consciousness." ~Peter Just

"Monogamy!  What!  Wuh... go figure."~Peter Just

"If we didn't have Amherst, we'd invent them." ~Peter Just

"So were they caught up in a game that they didn't want to miss, or was it Religious?" ~student
"What's the difference?"~Peter Just

"They say [to their doppleganger placentic spirits] go, eat, be satisfied.  and leave us the fuck alone (whispered)." ~Peter Just

"it's an example of our society talking to itself." ~Peter Just re: Simpsons

"I don't think it would be appropriate to tango in front of my students." ~Peter Just

"If [Marxism] was ever going to work in a nonindustrial society, it would be Afghanistan." ~David Edwards

"It's sort of the gap between the is and the ought in which human beings make their way." ~Peter Just

"If God were sitting next to you, you could grab him by the collar and [rough him up a bit] and sort of get what you want."~Peter Just

"Consider the nature of the Universe.  Now consider the nature of the Universe in a bottle.  The nature of the Universe is then bottle-like."~Tom, 8/20/02

"So, when do we do blue sheets for 337?"~Tom
"Soon.  Next week."~Duane Bailey
"Dude, Hiller's been preparing his for a month"~Evan G

"It makes sense to ask a modern man whether he is making an empirical observation or affirming his loyalty to the hierarchy and structure of his own society.  If endowed with the appropriate educational background, he may understand the question.  There is even the possibility that he will answer it accurately." ~Plow, Sword, and Book, p. 43, University of Chicago Press, 1998 Printing