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- "I'm trying to think of a way to do this without sounding smutty." ~My Verne prof
- "Porky's... Oh, god, I don't know where that came from. I want that out of my head. Now!" ~My Verne prof
- "War has been replaced by a capitalist machine. It's a Dick Cheney paradise." ~My Verne prof on Paris in the Twentieth Century
- "If you cannot understand something I have written, come to me and, if I can, I will descipher it." ~My Verne prof
- "Oh, god, I loathe Windows. It's just a [freaking] disaster. It's the worst [freaking] operating system in the world....You can tell I'm jetlagged." ~My Verne prof
- "I apologize for the quality of that; it was obviously captured in an official capacity." ~My Verne prof
- "The only creators who we can be sure are responsible for those things attributed to them are those who sign publishing contracts." ~My Verne prof
- "We'll have a lot to talk about when we get to Hell." ~My Verne prof on the new Turlington evangelist keeping people from coming to class
- "The reptile brain goes, 'This isn't right. Get to the surface!'" ~My Verne prof on SCUBA diving
- "You just shouldn't look too hard at certain aspects of the natural world." ~My Verne prof on differences in heights of the water levels in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
- "Abime - it's the magic decoder word of Verne." ~My Verne prof
- "The whole point of the balloon is to get them the [heck] away from everything." ~My Verne prof on The Mysterious Island
- "Once Adam named all the animals, everything was screwed." ~My Verne prof
- "Freud said - and I think it actually is relevant...which is probably why I thought of it..." ~My Verne prof
- "He's French. They don't do dentistry. He doesn't go there." ~My Verne prof
- "You don't work around these things, you have to work through them." ~My Verne prof on racism in the 19th century
- "It's got a real slam dunk ending." ~My Verne prof on The Mysterious Island
- "It would be untoward to kill a student. That would take a toll on my student ratings... 'He was a good professor, but he killed a student.'" ~My Verne prof
- "Maybe he overexerts himself. Maybe all that being quiet is what kills him." ~My Verne prof on Nemo's tiptoeing around Lincoln Island
- "It's doing it right now, you know." ~My Verne prof on Niagara
- "It's still doing it." ~My Verne prof on Niagara
- "It's from The Mysterious Island! Where's Nemo!" ~A guy in my Verne class on an inexplicable coconut in The Meteor Hunt
- "We'll talk about a twenty meter meteorite landing like a soft boiled egg on the coast of Greenland and sliding into the ocean instead of blowing the [Tartarus] out of everything... Verne isn't really interested in planet-destroying asteroids." ~My Verne prof on The Meteor Hunt
- "If I could, I would teach in jams." ~My Verne prof
- "Whatever kind of deity would throw junk at his creation...?" ~My Verne prof
- "The heavens are whimsical. Sometimes they throw rocks at us." ~My Verne prof
- "It could be made of cream cheese, but people don't crave cream cheese the same way [as gold]." ~My Verne prof on the meteor from The Meteor Hunt
- "The end of the world nearly arrives, and then it doesn't. It's quite funny." ~My Verne prof on The Meteor Hunt
- "I want the big pot of gold to land on my head and destroy my land because then I'll be worth more." ~My Verne prof
- "It's been a turbulent semester." ~My Verne prof
- "One of Verne's last novels that he wrote while he was still alive." ~My Verne prof on The Kip Brothers
- "It's really big. It's like totally huge." ~My Verne prof on the Arc de Triomphe
- "Oh dear, your first literature class was a Harpold class? I've broken you for other professors." ~My Verne prof
- "White chocolate, dark chocolate, walnuts, honey, enough flour to keep the butter together..." ~My Verne prof on cookie recipes
- "Um, that's a...that's a...that's a great answer, but it's wrong." ~My DIC prof
- "I subtract five from four and get a positive number..." ~My DIC prof
- "Three-point-two minus four is point eight." ~My DIC prof
- "The signs absolutely DO matter, but I like to work in absolute values." ~My DIC prof
- "Every time you hit a key it gives off a small pulse that can be picked up by bad guys." ~My Fields prof
- "Energy is conserved at all times...so don't worry." ~My Fields prof
- "We are running out of symbols in different alphabets. Lots of collisions..." ~My Fields prof (ironically, we don't use symbols from his native alphabet)
- "So, never hide under a tree - a tall tree - in a thunder storm. No, I'm serious. This is not a joke." ~My Fields prof
- "Now we are ready to assemble the final solution." ~My Fields prof
- "If you come to the lecture, you at least know where we are and how lost you are." ~My RF prof
- "It's almost like Power. I mean, I don't wanna knock power..." ~My RF prof
- "So, it's a mess, yeah?" ~My RF prof
- "That's really what engineering is all about. You learn some basic things, then you go out into the world and see a cow and turn it into a sphere." ~My RF prof
- "Are you going to dip your cell phone in liquid nitrogen?" ~My RF prof
- "Maybe on an exam, you will not know �, but, in real life, you will always know �." ~My RF prof proving how pointless exams are
- "Ask me questions if I'm not clear...and I'm pretty sure I'm not clear." ~My RF prof
- "I know this will scare some of you...or most of you...but this could be electric field or magnetic field...or voltage! Okay, no more fields." ~My RF prof
- "I find you guys today not so animated." ~My RF prof
- "That is exactly the mess I have handed out today." ~My RF prof on his lecture notes
- "I'm starting to become handicapped for this job." ~My RF prof on being nearsighted and reading Y-Z Smith charts
- "The resistor is NOT a real resistor." ~My RF prof
- "These are a few things that might impress people. Probably not your girlfriend or boyfriend." ~My RF prof
- "The Chinese invented it and found out it wasn't any food, and got rid of it before the Europeans ever heard of it." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "If you... No. I was going to say something snarky [about rushing a fraternity], but I don't." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "I speak with semi-colons all the time. And hyphens." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "Epic poetry was like...y'know...Homeric rap." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "Listen up - he's gonna do something cunning. He's very crafty, this guy." ~My Technologies of the Book prof imitating Homer in "The Odyssey"
- "You don't want to remember everything you ate for breakfast every day for the rest of your life. You might want to do something else with those neurons." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "Oedipus didn't have an Oedipus complex...he's just a bunch of letters on the page." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "You should read with your kids because they might be reading smut." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "Here are two people making love that turn into a crocodile." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "You smush 'em, they don't work anymore." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on scrolls
- "[Your desks] were designed by torturers for the CIA." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "[Rearranging my bookshelves] turns into a week-long orgy of self-flagellation." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "...otherwise the roof falls in, which isn't very good for the books, either." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on wasting library space on support columns
- "As though somehow a thirteen-year-old can know for [excrement] what they want to do." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "A magical book, not a real book, because this is the magical world of Borges." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "Don't use the royal 'we,' for heaven's sake...unless you are royalty." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "Socratic dialogue doesn't work with thirty-five people." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "Every now and then, there are fires or the Nazis get put into power." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "If I can't [decipher my handwriting], I'll reimagine what I might have meant." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "Reading demands a surface, and the torso is not an ideal one." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "And so, he argued that Shakespeare was Bacon." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on Orville Owen
- "Bacon was a very busy man." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on Orville Owen
- "It's completely cool. It's totally, totally, totally, totally cool." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on...something. I don't even remember what.
- "Human beings are [jerkfaces]." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "I read on the sofa; I swim at the beach." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on beach reading
- "Everyone should have nudie magazines. I'm all in favor." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "Actually, if you're from Mars, I wanna know." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "I'm the white-heterosexual guy here, so I'm the one who gets to pretend I'm the norm." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on purple-shirt-white-slacks day
- "The O.C. You WANT that HOUR back. And you'll never ever get it back." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "Poe is, like, freakin' out all the time." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "'Aw [dagnab]...that's funny.' 'They just blew everything up,' funny." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "I still had some gestation to do." ~Hillary
- "I'm not the kind of person who says, 'Information wants to be free.' [Tartarus], no. Rent wants to be paid." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "It ends with this much more ambiguous sort of weird...[stuff]." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "It's got cat flatness." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
- "We really encourage you to make mistakes." ~My Junior Design prof
- "You sort of learn that on the fly, so do not panic." ~My Junior Design prof
- "There's a love of...motion in the wiggling baby." ~My Junior Design prof
- "Customer is typically not an...expert in terms of engineering." ~My Junior Design prof showing why no one likes engineers
- "Do a test where you, I don't know, simulate a baby or borrow a baby..." ~My Junior Design prof
- "They used to blow up like little party poppers. It was fun." ~My Junior Design lab tech on electrolytic capacitors wired backward
- "I love these little cameras because...they're so terrible." ~My Junior Design lab tech
- "If you try to pull these chips out without the tool, the pins will snap and it'll roll over and one of the little pins will go under you fingernail and you'll curse and it'll hurt. And then a month later, you'll do it again." ~My Junior Design lab tech
- "Protel's waiting to choke and lose it all, so I'm gonna go ahead and save it." ~My Junior Design lab tech
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