Jennifer Tour Chayes quotes
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“It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.”
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“Always try to innovate. If you lose your old fitness, you lose out to Bose-Einstein condensation. I am sure that companies that go under would feel better if they knew that they were victims of Bose-Einstein condensation.”
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“I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.”
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“Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.”
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“With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.”
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“I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α , β, γ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".”
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“Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.”
-- Jennifer Tour Chayes
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