600 people have died from it

Do you have swine flu?

3-D grapes aren't very nutritious

This design is not going to prevent world hunger, only governments can do that

Take notes about this key, it's pretty revolutionary

Same dumb key...but harmoniously dumb.

Go buzz or go home

(about a shaved head) Thats a pretty decisive haircut.

Hold your questions, I'm doing my Batman monologue now

This project is a little reminiscent of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

You guys have no talent

Anyone with basic motor skills could do that.

This is really exciting stuff, isn't it?

Doesn't it just get your heart pounding when you see progressions like that?

Take it to the non-limit

I tell students to test the parameters.  They don't really exist, it's just something I say.

Word of the Day

Patternistic- patterned

I don't really pay attention to course evaluations because I've been on tenure for 40 years

Relatively Irrelevant—that's going to show up in a course evaluation.

Analogies: the most helpful kind of criticism

This key is like our unfortunate, troubled friend Michael Jackson—what he did to his face.  You don't want to pull a Michael Jackson.

I guess I'm qualified to be teaching you

I don't consider myself smarter than you...well, maybe a little.

Keyboards are really confusing

"How do you make a new one?"

"A new word?  You just type it."