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  1. "This is where the unpleasant part comes in." ~My Circuits 2 prof
  2. "Old Man Euler says that..." ~My Circuits 2 prof
  3. "Look at that. It's magic." ~My Circuits 2 prof on a transfer function
  4. "Did I just do something stupid by filling up the blackboard with all this stuff? I think I did." ~My Circuits 2 prof
  5. "This isn't just important... I'm having lots of fun here." ~My Circuits 2 prof
  6. "What is it about homework? No one wants to be the first one to hand it in." ~My Circuits 2 prof
  7. "It contains all frequencies of different strengths. That's another way of saying the delta function is weird." ~My Circuits 2 prof
  8. "There's nothing wrong with infinities. We have a very large universe." ~My Solid State prof
  9. "So that's going to be a nightmare." ~My Solid State prof on a calculation he was preparing to embark on
  10. "Consistency is more important that being rigorous. The whole world does it." ~My solid State prof on electrons having different masses depending on the formula used
  11. "How can something that doesn't really exist collide with something?" ~Guy in my Solid State class
  12. "It's hard to think with seventy people looking at me." ~My Solid State prof
  13. "You can make that as large as you like...we like milliamp values, not kiloamps." ~My Solid State prof
  14. "It's non-destructive. The smoke is still in it. If the smoke were coming out, you'd be dead." ~My Solid State prof
  15. "Let's give it a few more minutes to see who else is brave enough to come back." ~My Solid State prof after a particularly unpleasant exam
  16. "Everybody thought it was hard. I don't know what came over me." ~My Solid State prof after a particularly unpleasant exam
  17. "If you ground both sides, the connection is basically the Florida aquifer." ~My Solid State prof
  18. "As a faculty member, I can move your grade up...or down." ~My Solid State prof
  19. "They probably don't know what they're talking about. They're circuit people. For circuit people, a good device design is a black box." ~My Solid State prof
  20. "Hope you learned something. We'll see that on the final, I guess." ~My Solid State prof
  21. "A little bit of despotism there. But that's what democracy is all about." ~My Econ prof on taxes
  22. "[The IRS] is a legal Mafia." ~My Econ prof
  23. "If you don't know the answer and somebody says, 'right,' say, 'yeah.' 95% of the time, you'll be okay." ~My Econ prof
  24. "Do ponies have a salvage value?" ~My Econ prof
  25. "It's our last class for God's sake, answer the questions." ~My Econ prof
  26. "[sardonic laugh] Life is getting worse now." ~My Econ prof
  27. "It wasn't me. It was someone else within me." ~My Econ prof
  28. "You can't push on a rope." ~My Statics prof
  29. "What if A happened to NOT be at the origin? There are an infinite number of other places it could have found itself." ~My Statics prof
  30. "It's being squnched." ~My Statics prof putting "compression" into layman's terms
  31. "Most people can, in fact, tell their right hand from their left hand." ~My Statics prof
  32. "Three, my friends, is more than two." ~My Statics prof
  33. "If you ever break the code, then you're not a slave to the stupid table." ~My Statics prof
  34. "It's not capable of any moment reaction about this axis, otherwise it would be...a crappy bearing." ~My Statics prof
  35. "When you encounter favourable geometry, do not give it away." ~My Statics prof
  36. "I'll give you a hint: it's a four letter word starting with 'f'...and it's not a bad one." ~My Statics prof on free vectors
  37. "Is five equal to three? Not usually." ~My Statics prof
  38. "Under ordinary conditions the lift force is up." ~My Statics prof
  39. "You see something on the bottom [of the ocean[, and you say, 'I'm goin' for it.' And then you get down there and you think '...Gosh.'" ~My Statics prof on water pressure
  40. "It's like you went to the deli and said, 'I want a slice of that salami...and make it infinitely thin.'" ~My Statics prof
  41. "Thanks for coming today; looks like a lot of you didn't...or a lot of the people who aren't here didn't...all of the people who aren't here didn't." ~My Statics prof
  42. "Make sure all of the homework makes it back to that side of the room. Alright, we were talking about skinning cats." ~My Statics prof
  43. "It's like telling peaches from tangerines. Oh, come on, you can tell peaches from tangerines... Peaches have the fuzz." ~My Statics prof
  44. "If you perturb it a little, it says 'That's okay. I'll just go back to equilibrium.'" ~My Statics prof on why brass cylindars are so chill
  45. "You wouldn't wanna place prized members of your family in a little rolly cart on top of a mountain like that. The first little breeze that comes along, Woosh! They're goin' down the hill." ~My Statics prof
  46. "Verne was very dirty...in a nice way." ~My Verne prof
  47. "Verne was [a bit of a prude] as well, but in a sort of troubled way that made him still want to tell dirty jokes." ~My Verne prof
  48. "If you miss class...you're going to miss the side show." ~My Verne prof
  49. "If you wanna get drunk and catch a venereal disease, you'd be better off doing it in Paris than in Fort Lauderdale." ~My Verne prof
  50. "My handwriting is terrible, you'll have to get used to it. I have." ~My Verne prof
  51. "We've had 24 hours in the day since the time of Gilgamesh, and that's good enough for me. I don't know why they decided to make it eleven periods." ~My Verne prof
  52. "People found out there weren't many ducks...I keep making allusions to these ducks, but no one knows what I'm talking about." ~My Verne prof
  53. "Those who have had be before know I have a hard time...shutting up. It's in my nature." ~My Verne prof
  54. "I'm not being a smutty reader here, because this is smutty stuff." ~My Verne prof on Journey to the Centre of the Earth
  55. "[waving his hand over his head imitating a whirlpool] Verne was fascinated by this Thing. This Swirly Thing." ~My Verne prof
  56. "I want this to go away. I don't like it." ~My Verne prof about a Firefox update
  57. "This is a myth... This is a map." ~My Verne prof showing a map of the strata of Britain
  58. "His plagiarism gets more subtle as he gets older." ~My Verne prof
  59. "It was really, really other." ~My Verne prof
  60. "Verne's audacity knows no parallel." ~My Verne prof
  61. "It's a place in the middle of the earth where all kinds of weird [stuff] happens, to pout it as directly as possible." ~My Verne prof
  62. "Verne is too fascinated by the idea of this giant scary fish monster." ~My Verne prof on the ichthyosaur
  63. "I imagine the dinosaurs thought [they were masters of the earth], too." ~My Verne prof
  64. "No one stands up in the theater [during a musical] and says 'What the [Tartarus] is going on?!" ~My Verne prof
  65. "Let's imagine that you haven't read any Verne and you don't have a professor who beats you over the head with it." ~My Verne prof
  66. "Verne doesn't bring in the zombies, he doesn't bring in aliens, there aren't Norse gods..." ~My Verne prof on Verne's apocalypse stories
  67. "The natives don't go to the north pole because it's too cold and there's NOTHING THERE." ~My Verne prof on Norway
  68. "I assume natural selection selected out seasonal affective disorder." ~My Verne prof on Norway
  69. "He's going to a place that's absolutely unique. Well, there's another one at the South Pole. There's two of them that are unique." ~My Verne prof
  70. "Get your SPF factor ten million ready." ~My Verne prof on the magnetic poles filpping
  71. "It's best just not to think about what ytou have to do, just do it. If you think about ti, you'll FREAK out." ~My Verne prof
  72. "The hunters who live in those areas don't go in [the Congo swamps]. Only the white people in search of the great mythical dinosaur." ~My Verne prof
  73. "Boy, this fails the verisimilitude test..." ~My Verne prof on "The Seal and the Bear" (an illustration from The Adventures of Captain Hatteras)
  74. "You know the water [at Niagra] is doing that right now. And, like, a week from now, and a month and a year..." ~My Verne prof
  75. "I know I sound like a, like a aaa br-broken record..." ~My Verne prof
  76. "I know about this stuff, it's terrible. Why didn't I put these brain cells to better use? I can't remember the opening lines to Wordsworth's 'The Prelude,' but I can sing the Scooby Doo theme song. There is something seriously screwed up about the priorities of my neural processes." ~My Verne prof
  77. "It's really red. Like a-shirt-I-might-wear red." ~My Verne prof on red snow
  78. "Hey guys, watch this!" ~My Verne prof as the Imp of the Perverse
  79. "I'm not interested in melodramatic fiction, but [darn] it's good." ~My Verne prof
  80. "[Michael Palin] is kind of a charming man, and that makes it more interesting." ~My Verne prof on Palin's travelogues
  81. "There's a possibility that there's nothing going on in his head." ~My Verne prof on Phileas Fogg
  82. "He might as well be a pool ball." ~My Verne prof on Phileas Fogg
  83. "Fogg is not some sort of Scarlet Pimpernel... He's not Batman. He has no secret life." ~My Verne prof
  84. "It's all about winkwinknudgenudge to the reader." ~My Verne prof
  85. "Is it Tuesday or is it Wednesday? When is it? No. It's Tuesday. Well, [dagnab]." ~My Verne prof on the international date line
  86. "No one will ever describe what the Grue looks like because the Grue always eats everyone. [sly look at the side of the room]." ~My Verne prof
  87. "If you're gonna have a marriage, you have to get a girl somewhere in the narrative." ~My Verne prof on Aouda
  88. "There are many areas that I don't know about, and one of these areas is lace." ~My Verne prof
  89. "The most American thing in the novel is the ludicrous episode where they all decide they didn't want to wait, they'd just go really, really fast." ~My Verne prof on Around the World in 80 Days
  90. "Real life isn't very interesting, and when it does get interesting, you don't want to be there." ~My Verne prof
  91. "We're very sympathetic - even though he's creepy - with Fogg." ~My Verne prof
  92. "If you have a nuclear device, I think thirty seconds is cutting it close enough." ~My Verne prof
  93. "And now Terry Harpold is going to engage in an atrocious pun." ~My Verne prof
  94. "The land yacht is so great - it's totally awesome." ~My Verne prof
  95. "The purpose of the exam is not to see if you've paid attention to my wild gesticulations at the front of the class." ~My Verne prof
  96. "Sex is totally, totally, totally ridiculous." ~My Verne prof
  97. "Every bit of smutty subtext you think you're reading into the text is absolutely in there, but in a nice way." ~My Verne prof
  98. "There's nothing harder than trying to grade a bad exam." ~My Verne prof
  99. "It's not that he's running out of adjectives..." ~My Verne prof on the repeated use of certain words in Verne
  100. "I'm reading this with a somewhat salacious edge, and I'm sorry, I can't help myself." ~My Verne prof

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