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Ph.D.
, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

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On Life

  • Don't take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.
  • Hard work may not kill you, but why take chances?
  • If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.
  • Where would we be without rhetorical questions?
  • Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

On Computers and Computer Science

  • Who's General Failure & why's he reading my disk?
  • Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...
  • You may say I'm a SCHEMEr, But I'm not the only one
    I hope someday you'll join us, And the world will be as one.
  • It is like you are playing against a five year old kid and suddenly his big daddy comes along.
    -- Garry Kasparov after a long game with Deep Blue. He had been practicing for the match by playing against his personal computer.

On everything else

  • Sure, we lose money on every customer but we make it up on volume.
  • It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
  • I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
  • Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
  • The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
    -- Isaac Asimov
  • X-rated movies are all alike ... the only thing they leave to the imagination is the plot.
  • People are more violently opposed to fur than to leather because it is easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
  • 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.
  • 24 hours in a day...24 beers in a case...coincidence?
  • I am a vegetarian not because I love animals, it is because I hate plants.
  • Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
    -- in Deep Thoughts on Saturday Night Live.
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