I've always like to remember quirky little sayings that teachers and professors have said in my classes. During undergrad, I got into a habit of scribbling quotes at the top of my notes as they were said. These blurbs have covered any range of topics from self deprecation to ubiquitous space potatoes. As I have begun to study for my qualifying exams for this fall, I have cracked open some old notebooks (ie. a class from last fall) and was reminded of some of the crazy things that came out of the mouth of an Italian man who taught my DiffEq class.
While telling a story about using the computer to solve diff eqs:
"I have an experience with a grad student-not my grad student, of course...I would have fired him right away."
"This is so much better than buy one, get two. This is buy two, get infinity."
"First derivative, okay. Second derivative, okay. Third derivative, I'm screwed."
"Any more questions before the final torture begins? For today, anyway; I will be torturing you for several weeks."
"It is 5:08 according to my watch. 5:08pm, that is."
When someone asked him to repeat a topic he had just covered:
"I rewrite the same thing, but I don't mind."
"That is the beauty of mathematics-there cannot be two opinions. One of them is wrong."
While preparing us for our mid-term exam:
"You are like camels before I lead you into the desert. Did you drink enough water?"
When he found out there was a Springsteen concert in town that night:
"Bruce Springsteen is in Pittsburgh? What are you doing here?"
"Did I make a mistake? No? Unbelievable!"
"Don't trust computers. NEVER. Trust yourself."
The night after they gave away free shirts for the renaming of the school of engineering:
"Is there a way to get a shirt if we were not able to survive the crowd? Maybe I'll just ask Santa."
That is all for now. I do have a plethora of crazy and funny quotes, and you may see more here as I continue to relearn all the things I've forgotten over the past few years.
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