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#11358
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⚐ ReportSchwartz: The fun thing about alumni returning is that they realise that the things the teachers were telling them are true. //later, multivariable calculus and ducks on the board Schwartz, erasing: Nooo! You shouldn't see that. The ducks can stay. The alumni came in and drew ducks. Schwartz, later: I am trying to draw around the ducks. We'll see how long I can keep this up. Schwartz, later: I'm gonna turn this into a thrice-iterated integral, killing some ducks in the process -- and decapitating another one in the process. //later, Schwartz justifying his forgetting the names of alumni Schwartz: I also have a family, and about five people I knew from college who I still hang out with. //students audibly amazed
#11337
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⚐ ReportSchwartz: we're out of spatial dimensions! We can't perceive any more! Schwartz: or, I don't think anyone in this room can... If you can, tell me, because that sounds cool
#11271
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⚐ Report//after Ostrander walks in and doesn't get cake because he didn't prove the FTC Schwartz: If anyone says that you don't need to know calculus -- here's the reason: Schwartz: if you walk into a classroom and you can only have cake if you know the FTC, you can have cake.
#11210
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⚐ ReportSchwartz: We're just completing the square to find the vertex of a parabola. Schwartz: You've been doing this since you were, like, 7, or whenever you took Algebra.
#11209
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⚐ Report// f_x h + f_y k Schwartz: I want to give this expression a name. What should we name this expression? Student 1: Kevin Student 2: Kevin Junior Schwartz: Excellent! This is so much better than my earlier classes. Schwartz: My period 1 class named it z, and my period 6 class named it θ. Those are lame names.
#11202
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⚐ ReportSchwartz: I have 60 sandwich-tops of bamboo. Schwartz: That is a new sentence of Homo sapiens. I don't think anyone has said that before. Schwartz: If anyone says that in the future, they need to pay royalties.
#11184
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⚐ ReportSchwartz: We had problems [in single-variable optimisation] in which we built fences for animals we could farm. Schwartz: What is an animal we can farm? Student: Pigs Schwartz: All of my classes first thought of pigs. That's boring. Schwartz: We could have chosen chinchillas, but I guess I'm a pig farmer. Schwartz: I could have farmed velociraptors.
#11165
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⚐ ReportSchwartz, struggling to hold objects for a visual: If I have enough hands for this -- well, I'm not changing the number of hands I have. Schwartz, later: This was easier when I could use my teeth. Andy: Imagine him saying that 40 years from now.