Great Quotes - Semester 3, Term A
By tomorrow evening I will have taken my last exam for the week. *sigh of relief*
These are some of the great quotes that have been collected in "the little black book". . . Hope you enjoy the irony and quirkiness of them as much as I have. Apologies if I've posted some of these already.
"These programs are like trade schools for business. They produce mindless drones."
"Life is messier than a supply curve."
"It's a little Known Fact: The term 'Dutch Auction' comes from the tulip auctions in the Netherlands."
"There's no limit to how much you can spend on advertising. . ."
"Professor, I'm bored."
"Double-entry accounting began in Renaissance Italy."
"Did you just get up?"
"Why, is my hair messed up?"
"No, you just have that look about you."
"It's apathy."
"Would you like one?"
"Yea, sure. Thanks."
she hands him one -
"Oh no, I'm not into Tootsie Pops,"
he says earnestly and pushes her hand away.
"Isolation in the marketplace can lead to isolation in a jail cell." - Ansari
"Reality might be far different than my plan" - Corp. Fin. Professor
"The market may change, people could stop buying plastic babies or whatever." - ibid
"Interesting. You have deflation in bananas." - Macro Prof
"Economics is understanding the laws of unintended consequences."
"That's so beautiful I want to graph it." and he proceeded to do just that.
"for all you quant-jocks"
"It's a very technical term: T.L.A.R. It stands for 'That Looks About Right'."
"Are you talking about question 1 or question 2, Professor?" His response: "Yea, whatever."
"Let me explain everything so there is no ambiguity in life."
"Very Clever." "Thank you, Matt."
"If spending shifts from star wars to bread & stuff."
"Do we have time to confuse the issue?"
*he looks at the clock*
"Yes, okay, good."
"Finance is a delicate art, an inexact science."
AND MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE:
"quick-back-of-the-envelope-calculation. . ."
I've heard that so much this semester that it's overtaken "at the end of the day" and my thought is. . .
If you have a @#$%@# envelope big enough, you can derive the ^%#%$@#$ Nash Equilibrium on it!
And three from outside school just for fun:
"We don't even have enough bullets for them all." - pmb.
"I don't know, my sexual dreams have never been that ambitious." - brent
"She would be one in a long line of women I would never be involved with." - brent
Posted by Amanda at March 04, 2004 11:16 PM
