Huner Quotes
These are quotes from Dr. Burke Huner. He was one of my Electrical Engineering college professors at the University of Louisiana who could always come up with a funny comment.
- "Those damn French people with their hyphenated last names! But in this case, I can assure you: Biot-Savart is actually a Mr. Biot and a Mr. Savart."
- "Every good quantum mechanic has an 'h-bar' in his toolbox."
- "And if we examine this problem as a measure of difficulty - on a scale of 1 to 10 - 10 being... oh I don't know... mathematical damnation..."
- After examining a flux integral equation, Huner says "... now some of you are probably thinking to yourself, 'Where the hell is the dL button on my calculator?'"
- "Well, lets think about this for a picosecond or three."
- "It's hard to remember what your purpose in the swamp was when you are up to your rear end in mathematical alligators."
- Huner steps back and looks at an equation that resembles a limit of a Riemann sum: "Well, if it looks like a duck... and it walks like a duck... and it talks like a duck... I think it's an integral."
- "Suddenly you find yourself clutching the only friend you have in the whole world... your calculator."
- "And you all are thinking, 'You mean you expect me to use all that stuff I learned in Math 270?' ... you're damn right I do! And 301! And 310! And 350! If you don't like it, go be a civil engineer!"
- "Follow your mathematical nose! I wish I had a damn nickel for every ounce of eraser crumbs that students produce."
- "Use the KISS method: Keep It Simple... well... Stupid is derogatory... how about Sweetheart?"
- "ex is the original 'bat out of hell'. "
- "So, what's the BFD?"
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