Kahn Quotes
My 120 final is Wednesday. I've started studying early (go me). A collection of quotes from the professor across the semester:
"Without these tools to understand things, we're just monkeys running computer programs."
"Using terms like 'proper' and 'improper' to describe math is more fun. But maybe it's not as appropriate since this isn't a math class. But then again, they have the term 'degenerate'."
"I would love to teach rhetoric sometime just to retaliate to the world the harm that was done to me."
"Let's say you put z^1000 in the denominator, because you like to do things with style."
"Just keep accepting each spoonful..."
"Undergraduates are very respectful of professors, for some reason. Graduate students are more... contemptuous, so you have to fight back somehow."
"Let me not use the word 'is', let me use the words 'can be described as'."
"No one is going to be photographing the entire sequence of blackboards for the sake of history, I'm not Richard Feynman."
"If this is right... of course this is right, I wouldn't write it on the board if it weren't."
On the idea that the continuous time fourier series is more natural and that you can describe the discrete time case using impulse trains:
"Those professors [who disagree] would have me shot like an abortion doctor if I taught that." "I wouldn't trust those people with my children."
After mentioning that Georgia Tech teaches DSP first:
"Earth first are those radical environmentalists who kill people for cutting down trees... there are certainly some people I like less than certain trees."
"I made it through 30 years of happiness without ever knowing that there was such a thing as a difference equation."
"If I had to live the rest of my life only choosing continuous or discrete, I know which one I'd pick."