Jennifer Tour Chayes Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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".