A sample of some of the better moments of Friedetzky’s lectures (and that’s saying something, cos they’re usually pretty damn good)

“I should really be in bed”

“Urgh, I’ve been talking too much”

“No, I shouldn’t say that… because it’s probably not true”

“Ah good [the lecture] is almost over”

“I’m not writing ‘F7′, I’m writing ‘7′; I want to save on chalk”

“So here’s a bit of maths with typos…”

“Usually 1/6 is not equal to 1/12″

“Assume we always screw up like this”

“It’s just hanging around and is never ever going to be touched by anybody ever again”

“now… we’ve seen the good, the bad and the oh-well-quite-OK-but-not-smashing….
Can we perhaps say something about something like an average case?”

“That’s even too simple for the Master Theorem… Just a bit of staring at it for a second gets you where you want to end up”

“We are already convinced…. I think…….. Well I am.”

“I think today is going to be boring for a lot of you… well, I hope it will be boring for all of you”

“There was something I was going to say, but I forgot”

“This is going to be a short lecture”

“I’ve forgotten my slides”

“So that was the first five minutes…. excellent!”

“The benchtest will be one and a half hours, if I can think of enough sensible questions”

“The exam….? I don’t know anything about that”

“All we’ve done so far is some concurrency and some general handwaving”

“Does anybody else want to take this lecture?”

“I’m not an expert on temporal logic - so take everything with a pinch of salt”

“What you _can_ expect to see is basically questions that check how good you have understood the (few) important concepts of the course”

“I have been asked to provide sample solutions to the practical assignments, and I will try to find something and pass it on to you, but please note that this aspect of the course is more or less (more more than less) irrelevant to the exams”

Thanks to B.N. Spurling for these quotes, originally from here.