Jennifer Tour Chayes quotes:

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

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.

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".

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.

I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.

Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.