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It is so geeky, the geeks are afraid of looking at it.
Mr. Schumacherq, MATH 2880 LaTeX
Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 1, 2005

Talking about the manual for PicTeX
Rating: 10

"I don't have a desk to stand on, I can't teach without a desk to stand on"
Schumacher, MATH 2880 LaTeX
Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: February 1, 2005

Do I even want to try and explain this one?
Rating: 10

I teach the Kama Sutra of statistics.
Dave Pray, MA3710 Engineering Statistics
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 2, 2005
Rating: 9

Keats - he was kind of small, and a little mopey.
Fitz Smith, Modern Novel
CSU Chico, Chico, CA

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 2, 2005

On the importance of sentimentality in elegies
Rating: unrated

Rob, if you weren't ADHD, you'd be a genious.
Mrs. Chavez, Visual Basic .NET
Lake Central, St. John, Indiana

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: February 3, 2005

Said to a classmate after he went on for 15 minutes about how to make "Lordie the Game". Don't ask.
Rating: 10

I will be having office hours during lunch. I hope somebody comes to my office hours. Otherwise I will have to eat myself.
Don't remember, Chemistry
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 3, 2005

His English was not very good.
Rating: 9.8

Prof: "Sometimes this is referred to as being 'dispatched'. I don't like that because it sounds like you are shooting someone."
Student: "Better start Running!"
Dr. Howard Hamilton, CS 330 - Operating Systems
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 4, 2005

We were talking about starting a system process. ie. The transition from a process in "ready" state to "running" state is referred to the process being "dispatched".
Rating: 10

After we [humans] die, all of the body's processes, like photosynthesis, stop.
, Philosophy
University of Regina, Regina, Sasktachewan

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 8, 2005

It's a good thing he's not a biology prof.
Rating: 10

As the course numbers get larger, the books start to be called "Introduction to..." or "Beginning..."
Dr. Beachy, Math 521
Northern Illinios University, DeKalb, IL

Comments? Add or View (2) submitted: February 9, 2005

His book is "Introductory Lectures on Rings and Modules" for a second-semester graduate algebra course.
Rating: 8

Prof: [to student] You look skeptical. Student: I'm ok, keep talking. Prof: What was I talking about?
Dr. David Hyeon, Math 550 (Topology)
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 9, 2005
Rating: unrated

Don't believe everything you read-- especially if I wrote it!
Dr. Beachy, Math 521
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 9, 2005

He's teaching out of a book he wrote.
Rating: unrated

[After screwing up a proof completely and having to start over] Bill me for the paper.
Dr. David Hyeon, Math 550
Nothern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 9, 2005

He does this a lot.
Rating: unrated

Scissory fear...what's that word? Oh yes, castration anxiety.
Gary Thomas, Comedy: Text and Theory
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 10, 2005

Prof's Thomas attempt to explain gender theory.
Rating: unrated

Sheets are good, but Russian's better
Patrick, T.A., Russian Sports Massage
Arizona School of Massage Therapy, Tempe, AZ

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 10, 2005

Patrick's way of recalling attention to demo. This was said sometime in the spring of 2004.
Rating: unrated

Infinity is not a number, [pauses] but sometimes you can pretend it is.
Mattuck, 18.03 Differential Equations
MIT, Cambridge, MA

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 10, 2005

On the flexibility of mathematical rules to accomplish the result you want.
Rating: unrated

...You can't just ship it out, unless of course you're Bill Gates, then you (claps hands) ship it to my beta testers, uh customers I mean... so we cant just ship out hardware to beta testers, that's bad they get to send it back, they can't just download an update...
M. Morrow, ECE 352 - Logic and Computer Design
UW Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 10, 2005

Talking about hardware testing.
Rating: unrated

"What's the title of the movie? ...I can't remember! But you shouldn't miss it!"
Professor Killen, Psychology 101
Cypress College, Cypress, CA

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: February 11, 2005
Rating: unrated

Dr. Denner: "When are you going to take your test, Jessie!?" Jessie: "After class I have to go to the lab and set up the nuclear magnetic resonance imaging experiment, but-" Dr. Denner: "Now you're just making things up."
Dr. Denner, Russian 202
Stetson University, DeLand, FL

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 12, 2005
Rating: unrated

Everyone has a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of TV's....
Dr. John Hayden, HIST 1033: World History
Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 13, 2005

Said while discussing "the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Everyone knows TV = happiness :)
Rating: unrated

"Why do we study these steps? Well, the easy answer is that everything we study is important...except trimolecular reactions"
Dr. Holles, Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 14, 2005

Said during a lecture of the steps of trimolecular reactions, which ended with "you won't ever see any of this info again, I just thought I'd tell you"
Rating: unrated

in reality a plot like this has never been made for a reaction that was important
Dr. Holles, Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 14, 2005

We were looking at a very complicated plot fot the reaction: H + H2 -> H2 + H
Rating: unrated

I'm going to take attendance or call the roll, do you say that?
Prof. Sandoval, Advanced Spanish for Special Purposes
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 14, 2005

english isn't his first language
Rating: 1

it is like a smashed potato, but we are not smashing potatos, we are smashing atoms
Prof. Sandoval, Advanced Spanish for Special Purposes
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 14, 2005

talking about particle accelerators in advanced spanish class....
Rating: unrated

I don't know what you were smoking this weekend...
Dr. James Bjornstad, Contemporary Theology
Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 15, 2005

Answer to "Will you email us the test questions?"
Rating: 8

I know, this is the new millenium, so I can't say things like "Wow, that's wrong, you're stupid," 'cause it hurts the students' self-esteem, so "that was a good answer, but this is a much better one."
Gilbert Kerr,
New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: February 15, 2005
Rating: 10

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