"In the sixteenth century, in all probability, most 'landless peasants' actually had no land." -Richard Hellie
"Well of course we should socialize everything." -Michael Green
"If only we could socialize healthcare, then everything would be better." -Michael Green
"It's very easy to fill up the universe when you have an exponential function." -Laszlo Babai
"You work from 8 to 5, or 8 to 11, whatever, that's polynomial time." -Laszlo Babai
"Assume 5 is congruent to 1 (mod 3)." -Steve Wang
"What was the United States administration like in 1722?" -Richard Hellie
"Gregor Mendel... [was] very active in the agricultural societies organized by local sheep, apple, and grape growers." -Genetics textbook
"The letter A just looks more commutative to me." -Bob Kottwitz
"I think even numbers are nice feminine names and odd numbers are masculine names." -Roger Myerson
"By maximal we don't mean the very biggest one." -Bob Kottwitz
"That's something that makes perfectly good sense, and moreover, it's true." -Bob Kottwitz
"As chair of the Big Problems Committee I would like to say that we are trying to find a venue and a copy of Dr. Strangelove to play in memory of our foreign policy." -William Wimsatt
"This is just my opinion, although I believe that any rational person would agree with me." -William Wimsatt
"Garber didn't die, he went to Princeton, which is worse." -Ted Cohen
"Here are some evident facts about knowledge. And by evident I mean that you're not allowed to disagree." -Jason Bridges
"What's a Hydra mathematically speaking? A Hydra is nothing more than a finite tree." -Denis Hirschfeldt
"Whether it's 90210, or, what's the opposite of that... the Bible." -Mathias Regan
"George Washington was really more of a Reaganesque jelly bean type person." -John Hart
"You can use that for intellectual property, or land, or a coke bottle with a dead mouse in it, or whatever." -John Hart
"Jefferson wasn't that involved in these processes. He was always in France, or sick, or whatever." -John Hart
"Somebody raised his voice, so I loaded the cannon with rusty nails." -John Hart
"If you didn't have an established religion you wouldn't call it 'toleration,' you would call it 'everybody minds their own business.'" -John Hart
"Until John Ashcroft tries to take it away, you don't know what rights you need." -John Hart
"Everybody knew that sailors were getting high on whatever little pieces of rope they found lying around." -John Hart
"Good afternoon. Let's talk about... whatever that is." -John Hart
"Nothing Mayor Daley has ever done has been judicial... or judicious." -John Hart
"Militias were pathetic. Nobody ever showed up. Like the U of C rugby team." -John Hart
"Kant was just a shmuck like the rest of us. A pretty good shmuck, but still a shmuck." -Charles Larmore
"Patent law is one of the most litigious branches, and since we live in the most litigious country in the world, that's pretty litigious." -Adrian Johns
"There's been a subtle change in this, which was to take out the word 'not.'" -Adrian Johns
"There's nothing wrong with lawyers. Well, actually, there is, but this is not what's wrong with lawyers, principally." -Adrian Johns
"You could have an image of Noah rolling around drunk, and that would make you remember that at 2 o'clock you have to go to the pub." -Adrian Johns
"'Keep it simple, stupid' is a very good maxim. Make believe you're George Bush." -Richard Epstein
"It doesn't appeal to your mind, it appeals to your crotch." -Sam Jordan
"Ben's slogan for the Supreme Court: 'Making this stuff up since 1789.'" -Gerry Rosenberg
"That's akin to holding capitalism unconstitutional, which the Court hasn't quite gotten to." -Gerry Rosenberg
"I think the Supreme Court is just as confused as everyone in the room is." -Lior Strahilevitz
"I'm very fond of Frank Easterbrook. He married me. *pause* I'm not married to him. We wanted a ceremony where we wouldn't have to say anything. We wanted to get married in Israel but I was having a hard time proving that I wasn't a bastard." -Lisa Bernstein
"What's holding up the world? Well, it's elephants. What's holding up the elephants? I don't know, more elephants." -Lior Strahilevitz
"There's one in every class, and you're him." -Richard Epstein
"If you're really a genius you don't go to law school, because there's nothing here to keep you interested." -Mark Filip
"Thurgood Marshall was the leader of the NCAA." -David Strauss
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