"We can really get something done by doing work."

"That’s terribly unfortunate, because by doing that we’re going to be losers. But that’s okay, because that’s what we are. We’re losers."

"It turns out that life is just really nice and things somehow work out exactly as they should." (regarding the definition of entropy)

"Ideal means unreal."

"I got up early, but it didn’t keep me from being stupid."

"If you don’t take infinite numbers of readings, you’re never going to get there [the best-fit line]. If you do take infinite numbers of readings, you’re not going to be employed very long."

"We are all just points on the increasing failure rate curve."

"Student worked on this [the t-distribution] for years, published his stuff, and fortunately for us, died later on."

"And now we have to look at hypercubes, which you probably should not do before two o’clock in the afternoon, and one or two drinks."

"…Because most of us have eyeballs that work. Not everybody does, but that’s nature."

"It has that plus-minus thing going on." (regarding attraction between clay particles)

Explanation of activity: "It is a measure of certain qualities which you are not yet aware of."

"Pump, pump, pump!"

"Everything is smelly, by the way. It’s just a matter of level of smell."

"…epidemics which you don’t want…"

Stress bulbs: "…the only bulb which will not break! Ha ha."

"I’ve gotten more humane with the increasing years."

"It’s just a rectangular rectangle."

Alternate name for the (triaxial consolidation) CD test: "The very very slow test."

"I know it doesn’t make any sense. That’s why I put it on the board."

"Let’s do the experiment without trying to figure out what’s going on."

"Just don’t indiscriminately use this formula."

"This is a mess."

"Staring will not help you learn."

"If we actually look at the distribution of stresses across a-a, we will find a surprise."

"’Sandwich Beams’. No, you can’t eat them."

"Bizarre, bizarre, I’m getting bizarre today."

"It’s not necessarily more difficult, but a little more complicated."

"What are you going to do with all that concrete? You can only make so many drums for killing Mafia people in and so on… That was a joke, okay? Because some of you are giving me quizzical looks."

"Physicists are always trying to steal the limelight." (referring to Stephen Hawking)

"Pressure vessels are not just born; they’re made."

"Today is my ‘Fred’ day because I don’t do any problems, only talking. Ha ha." (referring to Professor Orthlieb)

"A lot of money will not necessarily bring happiness, but a lack of money will certainly not bring happiness."

"No. That is a different k. There are many k’s. Don’t mix up the k’s, okay?"

"My diagram is not very accurate. That is why I am making a larger diagram here."

"These are empirical equations. All you have to do is use them."

"Most people don’t understand numbers."

"Anyway. Don’t take this personally…"

"Diagram ‘a’ is sort of very misleading."

"Let’s draw some more tangents because we don’t know what to do."

"If you understand the problem, then there is no difficulty."

"I think I did already talk about stability- I said joints must be stable."

"If you guys have trouble sleeping, give me a call and I will give you a lecture on virtual work."

"Now we’re going to do a Linda Blair." (referring to the Exorcist, switching chalkboards from the front of the room to the back)

"We’re in a weird class, aren’t we?"

"This is a very literal class, isn’t it?" (after we corrected an equation on the board)

Siddiqui: "You guys have finally driven me crazy."
Nicky: "If you were a postal worker, you’d’ve purchased an uzi by now."
Siddiqui: "Do you know where I can get one?"
Aimee: "I’m so glad this is my last day of class."

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