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Adventure Time with Kar and Muff: CMU Prof Quotes
May 16

quote I guess you could consider 0.3 an infinite number.

Oh, to anyone who actually believed me when I said that, don’t worry; I’m just messing with you. My bad, my bad.

Professor Alessandro Rinaldo
36-217 Probability Theory and Random Processes
May 15

quote Well, the people of the People’s Republic of 33106 have spoken and voted with overwhelming majority to NOT have a quiz on out last day of class. So instead we’ll talk about the microscopic interpretation of disorder and that mysterious quantity called entropy. Also, going back a bit I will give examples where at various times during the semester I had to “lie” to you by giving you only the Newtonian explanation of certain things when in fact the reality is a bit different (and even more exciting). Should be fun. Cheers and C U then. —HV

— Professor Helmut Vogel
33-106 Physics I for Engineers 
May 14

quote I don’t see a particular reason for anyone in this class to drop…except for that one guy that never showed up to class. Oh and there’s this other guy…Okay but those are the two only students. And neither of them every come to class, so I can say that aloud.

Professor Irina Gheorghiciuc
36-301 Combinatorics 
May 13

quote Okay guys, time for some conditional probability. So…say you’re a smoker, and you want to find out if you’re female…

— TA Will Gunther
21-127 Concepts of Mathematics 
May 12

quote No matter how close a friend is to me, if she puts on a hat I won’t be able to recognize her.

Professor Irina Gheorghiciuc
36-301 Combinatorics 
May 11

quote So this one time I went on an airplane to go to Alaska, and something in the software malfunctioned and all the TV screens displayed a Linux terminal.Though other passengers were panicked, I personally was delighted to see that airplanes run on Linux instead of Windows.

Professor Anthony Rowe
15-213 Intro. to Computer Systems 
May 10

quote I went to Course Center the other day with chocolates for all my wonderful students that would come! Except no one came and I sat alone for two hours eating chocolates…

— TA Amy Stetton
33-106 Physics I for Engineers
May 09

quote There are some things that I hope you remember and some things that are just unethical for me to expect. This following problem falls in the line of “very unethical”.

Professor Irina Gheorghiciuc
36-301 Combinatorics 
May 08

quote Is this styrofoam for aesthetic beauty? Ha no. In fact, it creates air resistance and impedes the movement of this AR drone. BUT it DOES keep you people in the front row safer by blocking the blades. So, it’s bad for the drone but good for you guys! You can rest assured that you won’t be killed during this lecture. Oh, but just in case, you should probably evacuate the first row. I’m being serious.

Professor Anthony Rowe
15-213 Intro. to Computer Systems 
May 07

quote I was excited because 90% of the class got full points on problem one…then 60% got full points on problem two…and as I went on my heart greatly sank.

Professor Irina Gheorghiciuc
36-301 Combinatorics 
May 06

quote The Earth is like a big fat grapefruit, 25,000 miles around…

TA Amy Stetton
33-106 Physics I for Engineers
May 05

quote Proving this Lagrange Inversion Theorem without complex analysis is like giving birth to a 10-pound baby. But we’re going to do it anyway!

Professor Irina Gheorghiciuc
36-301 Combinatorics 
May 04

quote In case you didn’t know, Kelvin was the granddaddy of half the Nobel Prize winners in physics.

— TA Amy Stetton
33-106 Physics I for Engineers
May 03

quote The best way to remember something…is not not remember it and Wiki it later.

Professor Irina Gheorghiciuc
36-301 Combinatorics 
May 02

quote The normal force is like that guy in the conversation that agrees with everyone and you hate him.

SI Guy Steve Scannell
33-106 Physics I for Engineers