Do what I want you to do, not what I tell you to do!
my brother, programming
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“Bit” can mean the past tense of “bite”, or… no, wait, computers have bytes, not bits.
linguistics prof
[Explaining what a Turing machine is not:]
Prof: “Solve world hunger problem.” I can write it down. It is solved.
Knowledge is gerbils.
AI class
Student: Who is the marker for this class?
Prof: Uh… I think… some guy.
Prof: Has anyone crawled into the body of a dead animal?
[My brother writes an episode of Lost:]
Sayid: Jack, don’t do this.
Jack: I’m gonna do it.
[My brother is watching the season 3 finale of Lost for the first time.]
Me: What are they talking about?
My brother: The island?
Me: How do they know about the island?
My brother: This is a… future… back?
“Sometimes I put on a baseball hat and pretend it’s Rob’s.”
my brother, quoting Jeff Probst
Prof: If I erase this, are you going to kill me?
[starts erasing]
Student: Yes.