Actual College Professor Quotes Part II

Here's another edition of weird things said by actual professors. I had Dr. Mortensen for two classes; Materials and Manufacturing Design.

• (On the Atomic bomb) If it doesn’t work, are you happy or sad? Never could figure that one out.
• Saliva is a more refined spit word.
• I’m approaching spherical because I want to optimize my geometric.
• It’s just delightful to sit up in the mountains and watch the deer and weld.
• (On putting his hand in the toilet) That’s not the worst place my arm has been. I had cows.
• The whole world looks like a nail if all you own is a hammer.
• (About the author’s dedication page) I don’t care if he loved his mother.
• (On scouting) If you don’t understand aluminum foil dinners, you won’t make it.
• (On the strength of titanium) It takes those tools and says, “You think you’re gonna what?”
• Adam probably knew how to wire a TV set but didn’t want to because he knew the effect on his kids.
• (On coyote extinction) I’d burn incense on that hummer.
• You open a Cracker Jack box and you get a computer that will solve the Eigen values.
• This is a trick. This is nothing more than a trick.
• You have to know what they know and they don’t know a thing.