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"There are women who aren't prostitutes."
--Professor Li, History 78, Beijing and Shanghai: Tale of Two Cities

"Yo Nii!"
Professor Orthlieb

When engineers screw up people die!
-- Prof. O, welcoming freshmen engineering students.

Say you have a bunch of fish... and you want to put them in a bowling ball. You have to ask yourself, is this practical?
-- Prof. Shimamoto

Prof. Shimamoto: "Stephanie, when's your birthday?"
Stephanie: "November 21."
Prof. Shimamoto: "Tom, when's your birthday?"
Tom: "September 3."
Prof. Shimamoto: "Alright. I'm going to prove that one of you is lying."
--

A lot of academics are academics because we were the kind of poor souls who actually liked going to school; we liked it so much that we never left. So we're often socially maladjusted creatures. Do not feed the professor; it may bite.
-- Tim Burke

"If you're at equilibrium, you're dead."
Professor Voet, Chem 38

It's fine for you to take advantage of people.
-- Prof. John Caskey, Econ 22 class

One of you came to me with this problem. So I brought it to a meeting, and started working on it ...
- Professor Kelemen, CS 41, Algorithms

"That is whack."
Professor Reeves, Political Science 002

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