"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?" - Philip G. Hamerton

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Quotes:

All that modelling for what? You can't model the world. There are certain parts of economics where math is essential. [Me: Financial] Financial. Other than that it's useless. All that math hasn't solved anything in the world.

You nice Chua (Eunice)

Put'ter call par'rer'tee condition (Put-call parity)

[On financial advice] Part e, all of you got it correct. All the strategies are correct, depending on your risk aversity... Some of you said: 'Since he is convinced the price will go up, buy unlimited call options. That is also correct'. (Part iii)

[On the Black-Sholes model] This model, the formula will be given in your exam... Can any of you remember this formula for me?

For the exams you have to remember... (exam)

[Me on a skirt with many buttons: Are these buttons functional?] Fashion. [Me: That's not a function] [Student 2: Fashion is a function] [Me: Go and die]

Engineering she3 me4 dou1 nan2 (Translation: Everything in Engineering is hard]

Don't you guys ever find it ridiculous that people have to write exams? Grown men and women have ot sit in the exam hall. (sit for)

There are some of these questions that even I find hard to do using predicate calculus. Not that I should find it any easier than you guys. That is to say nothing about my great genius.

In Singapore we have bomb drills, even though we have not had a bomb in 500 years... They have artificial limbs, so the Civil Defence people will have something to carry.

[During the last week of instruction] Unsure/sure?... If you're not sure then I'll say come next monday for tutorial.

[On predicate logic] It'll get easier if you practice more. The reason it is so hard for me is that I haven't practised.

[Me: Where's the key?] You'll take care of it right... [Student 2: He just wants to attract attention] [Me: How about you?] I'm a girl. It's logical for me to attract attention.

Deliver the gold in 1 year time (year's)

[On my extra bones] Freak. You're like an X-man, except you've some useless ability.

You want to see the final exam questions? [Audience: Yes] *Flashes covered exam paper* Those who can see will get 101 points... 10 points is just the true and false [questions]. See how easy [it is]?... You take a coin and toss it, and see how many trues come.

In the exam, if you take the wrong one and the wrong answer, make yourself happy about what you have done.

Some questions will use 2 or 3 sections [of the course]. [Me: Buy a straddle. Use it to construct a portfolio. Sell an option on it.] [Student: In a foreign market.]

That's the trick to being a PhD student or admin officer - yes/ no question, say in 10 pages. In the end don't enen reply [yes/no] (reply)

You see ads right, don't appeal to people who question, like you. They appeal to the masses... That's why you have shampoo commercials.

How come Year 1s ah, they can just afford to come here and party everyday?

I feel that Lit is eading a book and trying to find something that is not there. [Me: I felt that {way} in Sec 2]... I played along with it. But in University it's getting ridiculous.

It is only in modern Literature that they get so horny... Charles Dickens, Shakespeare - he's not that apparent... [Me: That's why girls like it... Express it in a socially acceptable way]... It's feminism. Whine whine whine about how they're being oppressed. If they're so good they'll do something about it instead of whining about it.

I don't think the writers are thinking of such things when they write... [Me: Maybe literary analysis says more about the analyst than the analysed] We give meaning to what we read. That's why the Egyptian gods used to be revered and now they're just gone. Poof.