Funny (or not) quotes. 

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Baseball managers (who rank among the better paid statistical modelers) employ batting averages to gauge the likelihood that a player will succeed in his next appearance at the plate... Wall Street speculators (who rank among the BEST paid statistical modelers) build models based on past stock price to predict tomorrow's fluctuations... At the other end of the pay scale reside natural language researchers, who design language and acoustic models for use in speech recognition systems and related applications." 
                                -- A. Berger, S. Della Pietra, V. Della Pietra. A Maximum Entropy Approach to NLP. Computational Linguistics. March 1996.

You're the coolest [fill in your fullname] I've ever known! 
				-- Mike Wazowski

You are like some random state on Mars that doesn't belong to my Markov Chain!
				 -- Math professor, frustrated over our lack of response in class

You and I may be relatives... by our great great great grandchildren.
				   -- Graphical models professor, when explaining dependencies in a Bayesian network

You do Taichi! You win Nobel Prize!
				-- Taichi Master at Rice Univ.

It's not really simple, I just call it simple to make you guys feel better.
				    -- legendary math professor at Rice

I tell you what you can do with 4D space. You can dream about it. You have lotsa good dreams in 4D space. 
				   -- same legendary professor, on how to visualize high dimensions

So we trying to compute volume of snake.
				  -- same prof, on double integrals

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
				  -- E. W. Dijkistra 

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
				  -- Henry Kissinger

"If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers." 
				 -- Homer Simpson 

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