Quote log

Online

  • "(nyan) has a[n] Eric Shen statue in [their] basement, and goes there to pray before any contest." - MathLuis
  • "I don't have to go immediately. If I have to do the FE, I'll go." - Raina Wu
  • "I will put my s[ecret ]Hitler gaslighting skills to work" - Jordan Lefkowitz
  • "Hope you don't mind when an old man sings,"
    "I do mind a lot." - Alexander Wang
  • "If I randomly blurt 'i lost the game', I might not have actually lost the game, because sometimes I'm not actually thinking- it's just a reflex." - Vivian Zhong
  • "did i mention i scored more than twice everyone else [in pico.party]"- Espen Slettnes
    "actually 170 is not more than 2*85 / contradiction / end proof" - Eric Shen
  • "If you want to steal an idea, it's fine as long as you do it better" - Evan Chang
  • " 'dead lee' [eisirrational] has to to be one of my proudest 3 life accomplishments" - Dennis Chen
  • "remember that it (USEMO) doesnt matter much for anything other than OTIS spades!" - Vivian Loh
  • "by all means, a thermometer could be a measuring stick." - Justin Lee
  • "War hardens the heart." - Lucy from The Lego Movie
  • "quadrilateral geo is 4/3 times harder than triangle geo" - Aditya Pahuja
  • "money is never lost, it's only transferred" - Tiger Zhang
  • "I’ve never really studied Japanese / I just see 串 and I’m like, 'oo barbecue ok' "- Alex Zhao
  • (response to "yay I escaped 1984") "welcome to 1985" - Espen Slettnes
  • "dreaming is aiming a cannon / doing is firing it (and) moving along the aimed trajectory" - Feodor Yevtushenko
  • "I do not support mathimathz." - Hanna Chen
  • "money's not important if you have a lot of it" - Feodor Yevtushenko
  • "instead of taking USAJMO next year i think i'm going to shoot for U.S.J.A.M.O. to try to make MPO [Math Prize Olympiad] instead of MOP" - Bryan Guo
  • "This conversation is a 1-2-3 triangle" - Carlos Rodriguez
    "this conversation does not cover any area" - Ming Yang
  • "imagine making a contest called GAME [Golden Arbitrary Math Exam], that's just asking to be lost" - Vivian Loh
  • "dislike of 'orz' is positively correlated with orzness" - Henry Jiang
  • "Evan is a ♦" - USA TST 2017/5 reference
    "Evan is a diamond"
    "Evan is charismatic" - OTIS
  • "can I vote on all 25 of my email addresses [in a Google form]? this is the equivalent of voting for president in 25 different states" - Kiran Reddy
  • "younger than me = child" - Ali Cy
  • "if you're living for the future, your life must suck" - Aaryan Vaishya
  • "... (mop) tractor addicts" "... Farmer John?" - Sheldon Tan
  • " 'Dem Deer' is like combo; you might like it, you might hate it, but you cannot avoid it" - source?

ca. MOP 2023

  • "How many MOPpers does it take to do trigonometry?" - Po-Shen Loh
  • "What are some characteristics of a buffalo?" - Alec Sun
    "It touches grass" - Andrew Carratu
  • "I want to get ELMO revenged so I'll make ELMO worse this year" - Tiger Zhang
  • "y'all are such smart alecks" - Derek Liu
    "true, the alecks must both be very smart" - Advaith Avadhanam
  • "I would like to have the honor of being roommates with my führer" - Juni Kim
  • "as a general principle, if you can't write it up, you haven't truly solved it" - Luke Robitaille
  • "if you guys sell your WOOT, then AoPS might not be able to say 'all IMO team members are WOOT alumni' anymore" - Hannah Fox
  • "long island sound best coast?" - Max Lu
    "west egg best egg" - Kristie Sue
  • "you have 30 minutes left to get your elllllll-monade" - Milan Haiman (ELMO day 1)
  • "Moving points moves your points from 7 to 0" - Advaith Avadhanam
  • "I visualized the 770070 on the scoreboard, but if you visualize something for too long it becomes a reality. so I stopped visualizing and solved the problem” - Allen Wang
  • "my flight will depart around 2359 BCT" - David Zhang before MOP 2023
    "before common time" "wait oops so you're saying I missed my flight by a few dozen centuries..." - David (again)
  • " 'save the turtles' " - Zani Xu before ELMO day 1
  • "this problem is too hard, I'm gonna do a TSTST 9 instead" - Henry Jiang
  • "works for a 3-4-5 triangle so it's true" - Jordan Lefkowitz
  • "I can prove that Vivian is hitler statistically with p = 0.05 significance" - Henry Jiang
  • "setting up tex+asymptote takes around a minute on linux and multiple hours on other os's" - Eric Shen
  • "I would like to join the NSDAP" - Alex Wang during Secret Hitler
  • "why does everyone wanna be god (i.e. game master) [in secret hitler]? we're not polytheistic"

HMMT Feb 2023

  • "People are worse at geo than you think." - Ritwin Narra

CHMMC 2023

  • "taking videos of me eating is much less interesting than taking videos of me talking" - Feodor Yevtushenko
  • "Einstein" and "Eisenhower" - Aaron Chen and Sheldon Tan mispronouncing 'Eisenstein'
  • "isn't an interview a form of punishment" - Tiger Zhang

BMT 2022

  • "If you want to handwave a solution, you should write LIGHTLY." - Aaron Chen

Ancient

  • "few but ripe" - Gauss motto
  • "Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures." - Pólya, Poincaré
  • "There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." - Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
  • "Another roof, another proof." - Erdős motto
  • "There's never a letup, it's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more, and you gotta get it out, but the more you get it out, the more it keeps coming in!" - Newman from Seinfeld
  • "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter. Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... and one fine morning So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - The Great Gatsby
  • "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth." - Abraham Lincoln during the US Civil War
  • "Plans are nothing; planning is everything" - Dwight Eisenhower