quotes from the semester...

from software engineering:

"poor sales people. i feel sorry for them. they get alot of bad press -- sometimes wrongly, but

mostly rightly." --dr king

"i don't want to leave you high and dry -- there will be a few topics [on your pop quiz] that we'll

actually go over." --dr king

"here the emphasis is on [writing] lazy code: be strict in what you will accept before you begin, and

promise as little as possible in return." --the pragmatic programmer, p111

"what does COTS stand for again?" --me
"crap off the slides." --weezer

"dude, i'm telling you. wall clocks know everything!" --ardith

"so i have 7 pages of notes and 11 pages of stories." --ardith

"look! i have a green pen and a red pen. i use the red pen on things i don't like and the green pen

on mostly nothing." --ardith


from the operating systems textbook:

"idle lawyers tend to become politicans, so there is a certain social value in keeping lawyers busy."

--p9

"the dining philosophers problem is considered a classic synchronization problem, neither

because of its practical importance nor because computer scientists dislike philosophers." --p210

"step 3 of the resource-request algorithm: have the system pretend..." --p258

"certain options and features of a program may be used rarely. for instance, the routines on u.s.

government computers that balance the budget have only recently been used." --p318

"this type of security breach was shown in the movie war games." --664


random quotes:

"i'm getting old. you must understand my situation." --dr. kim (i'm guessing he's in his lower 30's)

"so then YOU ARE a CPU." --cassie to me

"it's great to have a hat on, so i can whack my head and it's cushioned." --becky

"diarhea of the mouth has nothing to do with you being an ethnic minority." --cassie to jeanette

"you should shut up. you should have shut up a long time ago..." --stefanny to jeanette
"yeah, like before i was born." --jeanette

"pardon me, i can't stand without my glasses on." --me
"so in that an inner-eye problem?" --trina

"keep those ankles covered ladies." --frankish

referring to lisa's hearing aides: "so that's how lisa can stand living with lindsey!" --frankish
*glare* --lindsey

"my sleep is a piecewise function." --becky

me: but you know everything.
the incredible hoyt: no, i don't. that would be too much to fit in my little head.

leadership doesn't matter. --becky (taken extremely out of context!!)

me: i wish it would keep raining
the incredible hoyt: i wish it would be like this
[5 second pause]
the incredible hoyt: oh wait, it is

i'm getting tired...my stomach hasn't had this much to do in quite some time. --schooby