Quotes from UVA Computer Science professors

How hardware works

• "18 IPS is moseying along. 200 IPS is hauling ass."
• Showing an example of core memory: "When I look at this, all I can think of is 'How did they get all those wires through those little donuts?'"
• "Hoot on you! Memory is cheap!"
• "Tell main memory to forget it."
• "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar."
• "Well, presumably it (the paper tape reader) isn't going to lie to me."
• "Well, presumably we have memory location 70, unless it's a pretty small computer or something."
• "They have 576 processors. I'm only going to draw some of them."
• "Have you ever wondered why computers have air conditioned rooms and we don't? They should be out in the heat and we should be comfortable! We have to stamp out this respect for computers!"