"When you say covering, people just go `Oh Man!'"
--Jason Slemons

         "On one hand, I could blank out for two straight days. On the other hand, it could be the most productive two days of my life! Expected Value ... Still Pretty Good!"
--Tracy van Cort discussing the week after her major projects are due.

         "I want lots of pebbles. And a pen! Then I can write things on the pebbles and throw tham at people."
--Tracy van Cort after being told she has only three pebbles to use on her turing machine.

         "I think everything is still defined given the values of epsilon we've been having recently, not to mention the rain."
--Owen, in response to my "I exist for all epsilon greater than zero."

         "Having fun, wish you were here (well, not really - who would wish summer in Claremont on anyone?)
--Martín

         When/if God gets bored does he sing the dreidel song? --  "People people people, I made you out of clay"
--kespinoz

         ABBA is ABBA spelled backwards.
--Katherine Wade

         "Martin, you're lucky I'm a pacifist."
--Marcy "Remember: Olympia's the capital and Seattle isn't" LaViollette

    'Applied' is only a word we use to get funding.
-- CMU Prof. William O. Williams

         "We have fun to have."
--Tracy van Cort

What the people need is a way to make them smile
Ain't so hard to do if you know how
Gotta get a message, get it on throu-ou-ou-ough
Oh now momma gonna let the music play
-- The Doobie Brothers, Listen to the Music

        If I lived back in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, "Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.
-- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey, June 5, 1995.

        "I can't fund an electronic cat, but I know people who can."
-- physiologist Jim Collins, replying to Ian Stuart.  (found in The Magical Maze by Ian Stuart)

Eves, Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty and NDP Leader Howard Hampton arrived at their home ridings to await the election results Thursday night....
But tax cuts and leadership dominated the headlines, along with the Conservatives' personal attacks on McGuinty and a Tory media release that called him an "evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet." ...
On Wednesday, he conceded that saying McGuinty has a "pointy head" was inappropriate.
By the time Eves took back the remark, McGuinty was using it against him. Joking with the hosts on a Toronto radio morning show, he said, "What if I spear you with my head?"
--CBC NEWS ONLINE Thu Oct 2 11:03:30 2003