The Complete List of Adharisms:
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I started this file in January 1991.
The following are statements (some a little out of context, admittedly)
made by Dr. Gur Saran Adhar during classes taught at UNCW. They were meant
as serious parts of lectures or conversations, which makes them that much
more humorous.
This collection is a reminder that there is humor in CSC, you just have
to know where (and when) to look.
Unless otherwise noted (ie a 'contributed by' note) these are all first
hand experiences of mine with Dr. Adhar in CSC242, CSC442, CSC460 and
CSC475.
Ken DeGrant contributed all Parrallel Programming course quotes.
Ross Smith (rosmith@vnet.net)
On Summer School:
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4 hours is too long to scream at your students, I am tired to my bones...
(contributed by the Math/CSC dept secretaries )
CSC 242: (Digital Logic I)
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I want you to appreciate this in its full glory.
What have I done?
I do not understand what I have done...
Does ANYONE see what I have done?
zero, zero, zero, one... zero, zero, one, zero... zero, zero, one, one...
I have made a fundamental error!
You have blown up many questions! (said to Ross Smith after the final)
At least you know your numbers! (said to Kane McKenzie one of the days he
actually showed up for class.)
If the present state is zero one and the input is one then I must change my
clothes and become green. (contributed by Kenneth Degrant)
I like to think of the J-K flip-flop as a horse.
(contributed by Kenneth Degrant)
For one minute, nobody moves. (contributed by Edward Riggs)
I would like you to learn to appreciate this idea and use it whenever
you have too. (contributed by Edward Riggs)
To make a 32 bit register, you make 32 of these little guys!
(contributed by Edward Riggs)
Look at the window... like it is a window (contributed by Corey Harrison)
You want me to botch it up and then clap. (contributed by Sharon Daniel)
Let me give it some physical attention. (contributed by Sharon Daniel)
I want you to be simplest. (contributed by Kit Cosper)
CSC 342: (Operating Systems)
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We need to keep reality in focus. (contributed by Chuck Brant)
CSC 442: (Digital Logic II)
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Before I give back the tests, how many of you are carrying a gun today?
You should not be interested in what the code is actually doing... you
just look at what it is going to do.
I will be greedy. (refering to pipe-line architecture)
Being greedy does not always work! (contributed by Ken DeGrant)
You are building a Castle on the sand! (referring to memory error-detection
and corrections) (contributed by Ken DeGrant)
I think there is a compilation error! (refering to ditto modules)
Stage 1, stage 2, stage 3, stage 3...
There is no point in wasting money!
Nothing else exists in the world.
To get to the memory, you must go through a broker. (On Memory Accessing)
(contributed by Ken DeGrant)
I have said too many things.
Is that the question?
It is now... (mumbled by Scott Black)
Are we supposed to understand this yet? (Scott Black questioning Dr. Adhar
regarding parity bits and error checking)
You want to jump over the blocks!
Scott Noecker: So you're saying this is optional?
Dr. Adhar : NO! This is not optimum!
Dr. Adhar : Did I confuse anyone?
Class : No
Dr. Adhar : Let me try harder...
(contributed by Chanda Hotsenpiller)
CSC 460: (Formal Languages II)
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This machine has a vision. It pretends to have foresight!
Dr. Adhar : This machine has a...
Kenneth DeGrant : business sense?
Dr. Adhar : YES!
This was a waste of money!
I will play a small game today.
I hate this game! (Richard Powell)
There is no point in carrying the game any further!
Oh, did I confuse everybody?
And this derives... Oh my god!
I am not complete!
I do not want to say that I will not give you this. Most likely that
would be too easy. (on test review problems)
This fellow did not even try once (referring to Chuck Brant and his homework).
I will have to play a different trick.
Do you see the game we are playing?
Todays lecture is GONE! Thank you Ken... (after Ken kept him side-tracked
with off-topic questions for the *whole* class)
Please absorb the consequences of this definition.
If you give two numbers, they can be compared by a machine that does not
even exist.
I would like you to be aware of the results and use them cleverly.
You will have a much better appreciation of this algorithm.
This problem is saying too many things.
Infinity is not bounded.
CSC 475: (Hardware Design seminar):
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Do not play with it unless you have to!
You can ask me questions which are not obvious.
I think we are pretty much ready for more pretty exciting things!
CSC 475 (Parallel Programming seminar):
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I have jumped all my slides...
If I may use the word without trespassing...
A pipe and a channel are EXACTLY the same thing, but totally different!
Now let us get this program into trouble!
(In a 15 minute 'how-to' lecture. Deadlocking two processes in Occam)
I will make an introduction to you something you know; but totally different..
The water bubbles are moving and when they reach here, they crash!
We put special medicine into these channels!
(On determining the global state of a distributed system>