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Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
-- Irving Fisher (Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.)
Economics exists merely to employ economists.
"...Yes, the lectures are optional. Graduation is also optional."
-- Professor Brian Quinn
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Jesus said to them, "Who do you say that I am?"
They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the kerygma of which we find the ultimate meaning in our interpersonal relationships."
And Jesus said, "What?"
-- graffiti at St. John's University, New York (A Year of Graffiti, Nigel Rees, Great Britain, 1983)
When you have to deal with the god-awful instruction set of the X86, you may as well get paid.
-- ECE/CS 552 Professor Mark Hill (explaining why we would be studying the MIPS architecture instead.)
Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
-- Samuel Beckett
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": 1. fighting; 2. fleeing; 3. feeding; and 4. mating.
-- Psychology professor (in neuropsychology intro course)
Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.