Humour

Prof Quotes

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“When it comes to design there is an artistic part and a mechanical part. MATLAB can do the mechanical part and we don’t teach the artistic part here” – Miller, ECE 380

“I did a work term at Nortel about 1000 years ago…” – Miller, ECE 380

“When I started in engineering, they had drafting. After three days of drafting, I decided that I had enough and moved to science. By Christmas, I decided I wanted a job and moved to engineering” – Miller, ECE 380

“Good morning. For those of you who don’t know me, you’ve been skipping class for the past two months.” – Harder, ECE 250

On the Colosseum: “The Romans were some of the best engineers who ever lived. Julius Caesar, P. Eng” – Evans, EARTH 438

“Now I’m making this up cause I don’t know which function to use” – Shalit, MATH 211

On Fourier series. “You got a big spike, then some wavy stuff” – Shalit, MATH 211

“There is actually this site called ‘Mines from Space.’ Some nerd compiled it […] it actually gets quite pornographic and silly” – Evans, EARTH 438

“Assume someone gives you a black box. Now if someone gives you a black box, you should be suspicious.” – Grag, ECE 240

“Wow, I am so boring, the computer fell asleep” – Tan, MTE210

At end of lecture: “Thanks to all of you who stayed to the end, its nice to talk to someone” – Carr, MSCI 442

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