Greg Ammar's Quotes

Spring 2000 in Math 564, Numerical Linear Algebra

• A technique is a trick you use more than once.
• I don't know if we're ever going to use this stuff.
• The real world -- I heard about it once.
• No more false alarms here.
• There's a lot of pieces of paper in the trash can for all of us when this is over.
• From the homework problem -- whether or not it was done, we can use it -- ....
• Now, what was the question?
• This is a bird's eye view.
• A rondom number generator is the fastest algorithm for generating the wrong answer.
• Great GAXPY!
• Things are easy when we go to infinity.
• Whatever "all" means.
• Well whaddah ya know?
• Is everyone with me?  I think I've regained my senses.
• You have to have two to kill one.
• It pleases me to announce the lecture is over for today.
• There's no confusion, except with me.
• I do what I think is wrong, then it's okay.
• I'm glad to have an opportunity to go off on a tangent here.
• When I say "beating a dead horse," I don't mean we kill it. (Steve's response: "No horses were harmed in the proof of this theorem.")
• I'm getting all confused again.
• I'm sorry I'm not moving smoothly through this material -- again.
• I do have my pants on.
• I hope this goes better.  I have no indicationthat it will.
• It's like relatives: they don't have to be far away, as long as they're not close.
• In Mathematica, you just talk to the computer.
• ...as if I could speak french.
• The problem is, a lot of computer scientists will read this book.
• You have no way of knowing what I might mean by that.
• I've already talked about that too much.
• Is he sure?  No, Isiah Schur.
• More talk, more talk...more chalk.
• The x is just there for confusion purposes.
• What is the theorem not saying?  It's not saying lots of things.
• I'm just reminding myself what's going on here.
• (About his upcoming sabattical) I'm going to come back the first week of class just to tease everyone.
• I should just write "kill" because it takes less time to write.
• I'm going to teach this course so much better next time.

Note: Yes, all of the above quotes came from a single semester course with the great Gaxpy himself.

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