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."