- Moderator: You have two minutes left.
Speaker: Oh, then I'll
have to slow down! --Jay Larson, SWMF-ESMF
Interopability and Model Coupling Workshop, February 2003
- Before we dig this hole deeper, we ought to decide if we like this
hole.
--Dennis Gannon, CCA Forum, January 2002
- Every computer science talk has to have a tree, so here's mine.
--Tiffani Williams, ORNL, August 2001
- The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice
than in theory.
--Gary Kumfert, CCA Forum, March 2001
- The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a
suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for
life. For this task it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it
finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain any more so
it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure.
--seen on 'net; original source unknown
- ...they ask, "What do you teach?" When I answer "chemistry," they
get that look like they've just been forced to eat Brussel
sprouts.
--Scott Wierschke, DoD HPC UG
1997
- In real life, chemistry is messy.
--M. Parrinello, 9th ICQC
- It is what they call "embarassingly parallel" but to tell
the truth, I'm not very embarassed.
--M. Parrinello, 9th ICQC
- In colloquial English, "we" means more than one person. If
a king or emperor says "we did it", it means "I did it."
When a professor says "we did it" is means "my graduate
student did it."
--V. E. Bondybey, 9th ICQC
- 1023 simple things is not something you want to deal with
on a Sunday morning.
--Richard Stratt, ACTC'96
- We're going to use the method of wishful thinking.
- There's lots of factors of two in this theory. Some of them are right
and some of them are wrong.
- The...term is extremely whimsical but fortunately small.
--Grzegorz Chalasinski, EMSL
- The horrible truth in its gory glory.
- Again, I think that's something everyone was born with: conservation
of energy, conservation of linear and angular momentum, etc.
- ... but then a miracle appeared. I mean a real miracle, courtesy of
Newton or somebody...
- It's not the fall that kills you, it's the hard stop.
- As usual, energy trumps momentum as a conecpt
- Timing is everything when it comes to killer satellites.
- Newton was clearly a smart dude.
- ... so I can lecture like a man posessed.
- You have to use a kind of blobology or bagology.
- Virtual displacement -- the displacement that time forgot.
- Right now I think it's intuitively obvious, which means that I don't
want to prove it.
- It's physics therefore it's right -- or at least it's mathematically
consistent.
- Good idea, I think I'll patent it.
- So why did I go through all of this garbage? It has to do with the
fact that I didn't like the Star Trek episode last night.
- All of these are available to the true theoretical mechanician -- Mr.
Bad Wrench.
- Now judging from the [exam] average, these were well reasoned, incorrect
arguments.
- I guess that's obvious, which is another way of saying I don't understand
it.
- ... the intuitive, i.e. dangerous approach.
- That's what we would jokingly refer to as the answer.
- This actually had something to do with Nelson's defeat of the Spanish
Armada. It seems that the British would fire and hit and the Spanish would
fire and miss... consistently. Then they went to Australia and had to do
it backwards.
- F=ma is always a downer because you have to consider all the forces.
- We may not understand it, but at least we ought to write it down.
- What we always like to do in this case is to pull out a sleazoid mathematical
trick.
- I can't think of any way to say it so I'll use dramatic imagery.
- This is an artist's conception of something.
- There is always a set of axes where life is simple, you just have to
find them.
- Proof by intimidation.
- Whoever he is, he's famous.
- I think that's obvious even without the Byzantine imagery.
- My intuition used to be good to 15%, but now its right on.
- I'm running low on symbols.
- So we're done with this jazz, thank God!