"The more advanced math becomes, the more it looks like English."
~ Laura
"I break boards, not people."
~ Puyao
"To me left isn't a direction, it's a sensation."
~ Laura
The rate at which food produces babies
~ ISU Math professor - so this is why mathematicians really shouldn't try to work with biology
* * * "How'd you get into my attic, not to mention this century?"
* * * "How'd you like to check out some curves that you can't plot on a graph?"
~ from the movie Fermat's Last Tango
"Go imply yourself away." ~ Sara
"This morning when you shook my foot did it take me a while to wake up? I really thought I was dancing."
~ Puyao
"See that girl over there? She has CDD. Cookie Deprivation Disorder."
~ Puyao
"He reminds me of an explorer because he only shines light on things that are advantageous to his point."
~ Puyao about our tour guide of Charleston
Way to prove that God exists: Put a water pistol on the table and see if it turns. God exists if it does."
~Puyao's childhood friend
"My gums doesn't hurt but it's shaggy."
~ Laura
"When you [Sara] speak it's like you're stomping."
~ Laura
"Did I tell you about the Fable, the comic I told you about?"
~ Sam
"The Colorado Spings zoo is right above NORAD, so if NORAD ever detonates a bomb, animals will go flying everywhere."
~ Lesley
Sara: "I feel like a computer."
Jeff: "Well you aren't user friendly."
"Hey let's look at causality here! Who's in motion in this inertial frame?"
~ Jeff, arguing about who ran into who
"I stopped understanding math at the point when it started to look like English."
~ Sam
“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation
of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave
the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because
you have lived. This is to have succeeded!”
~ Emerson
Jeff: "Once I've got a bachelors in math I should be pulling in 7 digits (a year)."
Sara: "You can have as many digits as you want, it just matters how many ar significant."