Quotes
Note: All quotes are actual, verbatim phrases said by Taliff. They are now also in chronological order! Names in parentheses are of people who submitted each quote. This page is updated once a week during the school year. Usually.
"Grading code is like grading poetry" (A. Li)
"We don't care what her growth rate is!" (While pushing a girl out of class in a chair. D. Johnsen)
"¨How do you know this? You know this by reading the textbook." (I. Fan)
"I am actually a Doritos person - I go through 3-4 bags a week" (M. Morizono)
"You need to MEMORIZE, MEMORIZE, MEMORIZE."
"You need to LEARN, not MEMORIZE."
"The British are coming!" (L. Cui)
"I don't know, try password." (When asked for a password. B. Wilner)
"The Smithsonian actually buys them." (Referring to old Linux computers. B. Wilner)
"Hold your thought. Wait no, FORGET IT!" (A Nonny Mouse LW)
"One day in the office where python was made, there were 30 minutes left and it was a Friday and they had the whole next week off, so they decided to make print formatting" (B. Wilner)
"Keep up the talking and you'll be spending 3 weeks with me for lunch" (It's B. Wilner)
"Eachpass stands for the dumb kid in the corner counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc" (B. Wilner again)
"If i said 88 hundred thousand million you would still say 'only 88 hundred thousand million?'" (B. Wilner)
"Save the TREES!" (L. Zhao)
"Don't share your test scores. Because they only want to be better than you. And if it turns out they're worse, they'll... Actually, I have no idea what they'll do."
"You can't bully in this classroom. You can not be BIG. I am big. I will squash you. " (Pi Girl)
"You must memorize, code, memorize, code, memorize, and code until....ting! The light bulb goes off and you remember it!"
"Lecture time!!!" (C the V)
"Silent Sustained Coding."
"And by study, I mean memorize." (S. Joo)
Taliff: So what were you doing during the lecture?
Student: Doing the packet...
Taliff: Give me that paper.
Student: Um ok.
*Taliff tears paper to peices*
Taliff: There, you can start over. Mwa ha ha. (C. Wissoker-Cohen)
"While eating your lollipop and licking your raw organic broccoli..." (Anonymous Pi)
"There is no test schedule....yet." (K. Lei)
"Don't say to your neighbor: you're stupid, you're wrong." (K. Lei)
"If you had a 89.67 and I used integer [int()], you would have a B." (K. Lei)
"One decimal place, cool." (K. Lei)
"It _does_ take thinking." (When talking about print formatting) (K. Lei)
"Remember, you may never use short forms in in this class. EVER! Oh, in line 17, when you have to print 55 hyphens you can use short form. Also, you can use it for the first 3 lines." (J. Silverburg)
"How many marbles? He's lost his marbles."
"He might stand up and give my eulogy, saying good stuff about me: blah blah blah, blah blah blah."
"I might actually regrow hair before the score gets to 20." (Talking about while loops)
"Coding needs to improve. Yeah, needs to improve." (When his whole class failed his coding test...)
"When I was your age, I had my piece of charcoal..."
"I'm not a people." (This, and the five quotes before it, Katherine L.)
"Next time I see you guys, I won't be here." (Katherine L)
"Video section and Request Stuff sections are needed." (Dino Sir.)
"Unfortunately, she is in my class." (J. Chuang)
"I can't answer that." (In response to 1+1. C the V)
"Oh look! The white house called! (C the V)
"It's only five questions long.....but it's a 100 point summative." (C the V)
"This site isn't blocked on MCPS computers. I'm on one right now." (T. Mattikalli)
"You get a zero. That's what you deserve!!!" (To crying student about to turn in assignment. Ewok Me)
"It's kinda like an organized mess." ( T. Mattikalli)
"I am not your computer science teacher" (T. Mattikalli)
"These stupid people only give one potato chip." (J. Chuang)
"Count by 2s! Yeah!" ( S. Khurana)
"2, 4, 6, 8, who do you appreciate? Blue Devils! Rah! Rah!" (S. Khurana)
"We could call it... ManHoldingStoolInCorner." (When thinking of variable names. Anonymous Pi.)
"Does this look like a shopping mall?" (S. Khurana)
"Oh, I'm just admiring my code!" (S. Khurana)
"You do not have to concern yourself with those details." (When talking about important basics for writing programs. Anonymous Pi.)
"There is an error. It may be aliens. Sorry." (Anonymous Pi.)
"Don't be smart." (Anonymous Pi again.)
"I will make you optional." ( Still Anonymous Pi)
"Who does not play the piano?" (This and the next 8 quotes: Katherine L.)
"Klicks = 100 meters = 1 kilometer; I KNEW there was a reason I used it years ago in college, I simply forgot why."
"It's not unique to python." (when talking about "import" in python)
"What do I do when I want pi? For math, I want to pick out just pi and square root."
"When I was young, I had to take pipe organ lessons."
"That's and F sharp. I'm going to do this... So that's a module."
"I took piano lessons from 2nd to 9th grade."
"We are going to do a sample test. Do not study for it."
"I have moved the first coding test to December."
"I wasn't listening. I was listening to my joke, again, in my head."
"Just put a little salt and pepper on them and they taste like chicken." (When talking about cats.)
"Mwass."
"Don't think. It's a bad thing to do. " ( A. Hu)
"FEAR. SHEER FEAR." (When asked why he won the SGA election)
"I didn't get out of school till age thirty." ( A. Campbell)
"If there is a lock down, it might be that some men or women broke out of jail and started a gang of four. And suppose they're bad ladies, and even if we lock the door, they have futuristic laser devices that allows them to break down the door. That's why you need to get under your desk, and be quiet. "
"Be a leader! Make up your own words. People will either admire you or think you're crazy."
"I am not allowed say yes to that."
"Thank you for being a quiet student. My one wish for you: Turn on your speaker (voice) and turn up the volume (frequency). You have much to offer (and do)- just offer it more often! Veritas Liberat." (Written in a student's yearbook)
"That is unnapealing to read. "
"Choosing images and photos that were more than appropriate. That were sharp. That really brought you in. If your sport was tiddly winks. "
"Some students have come to me and said, 'This website is perfect!". If it has spinning ponies in it, it has marshmallows dripping from the sky, it has a link with the president, I still might not think it is good. "
"No, you may not play that number game: tic-tac-toe, or anything that resembles a game. " (in reference to 2048)
"Use the subject line BATMAN. Email adresses are like "Speedy ballerina girl", and I don't know who you are."
"How many of you have used apple-based products? For your music, your portable music, how many of you have used an apple? " ( S. Kunnam)
" You may play around in the margins. You may draw arrows. I call it active reading. I'm a big fan of arrows. When you just read, that causes your brain to stop. 'AAA! Aaa! We're not home!'. That's called annotation. What's another synonym? Marginalia."
"There are no errors on this test! Other than there's a sentence that says 'there is an. ' That's an extra sentence. "
"DEADLINE? - Follow the same instructions but place in the Final Web Site DEAD." (A. Davey)
"I have hung up my ninjas. I am very pleased to have these ninjas, whoever sent me these, I am very happy. "
"The terms on a test with a strike through: don't answer those. "
"Page 3: show us an image of someone competing. I want to see competition. "
"The rules might be called 'How To Play.' If your activity is bungee jumping, there might not be any rules besides 'Don't Die'. "
"Some of my students ask, 'Can we do this?' Sometimes our body can do a lot more, but our minds tell us, 'No! No! You can't do it! You'll always be bad at math!' and that inner voice becomes more silent. "
"I do not care about your opinion." (K. Moore)
"Gosh, I wish I had wireless."
"I have a file available. It says, 'Keep Calm and trust the Computer Programmer.' I made it last weekend. I'll see if I can bring it up so you can check it out."
"I have a new folder. It's labelled likes and dislikes. So you want to know about all my likes and dislikes, yeah. My likes and dislikes are changing all the time."
"If you are going to do Python, please pick up Ye Olde Python Textbook. Please choose the textbook that matches your mood."
"Don't try to be cute and put a bad word in your website. Don't be like, 'I'm going to be cute. I'm going to write 'Mud Puddle' ". Don't."
"You kids are lucky you haven't been rounded up yet. That's a nice thing about being an American. In some countries, you can't do that. King George just says, 'Off with their heads!'. But we're a country of rebels. Was my family part of it? No. They came here as indentured servants. Someone owned them. But I'm still a rebel."
"Do you want social time? I'll arrange an after-school detention and we can read the textbook on social interaction."
"Grrrr-rrr. Grrrr."
"YOU GET NO MERCY EVER."
"We live in a social organization. You all have to do your part for our community to move forward. "
"Is there a rule saying you can get out of your seat any time you want? Yes, you have that right. No, you can't get out of your seat."
"You might be from Kansas. Then you should go Google the Kansas City Choir. You might like soprano voices. Then you should listen to them."
"J.S.Bach. He's one of the greatest composers of all time. Is he hot-tempered? Does he have golden curls?"
"My tolerance fuel tank is EmPTY!"
And probably the most terrifying Taliff quote of all time:
"WHY are you writing down everything I say?"
"Grading code is like grading poetry" (A. Li)
"We don't care what her growth rate is!" (While pushing a girl out of class in a chair. D. Johnsen)
"¨How do you know this? You know this by reading the textbook." (I. Fan)
"I am actually a Doritos person - I go through 3-4 bags a week" (M. Morizono)
"You need to MEMORIZE, MEMORIZE, MEMORIZE."
"You need to LEARN, not MEMORIZE."
"The British are coming!" (L. Cui)
"I don't know, try password." (When asked for a password. B. Wilner)
"The Smithsonian actually buys them." (Referring to old Linux computers. B. Wilner)
"Hold your thought. Wait no, FORGET IT!" (A Nonny Mouse LW)
"One day in the office where python was made, there were 30 minutes left and it was a Friday and they had the whole next week off, so they decided to make print formatting" (B. Wilner)
"Keep up the talking and you'll be spending 3 weeks with me for lunch" (It's B. Wilner)
"Eachpass stands for the dumb kid in the corner counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc" (B. Wilner again)
"If i said 88 hundred thousand million you would still say 'only 88 hundred thousand million?'" (B. Wilner)
"Save the TREES!" (L. Zhao)
"Don't share your test scores. Because they only want to be better than you. And if it turns out they're worse, they'll... Actually, I have no idea what they'll do."
"You can't bully in this classroom. You can not be BIG. I am big. I will squash you. " (Pi Girl)
"You must memorize, code, memorize, code, memorize, and code until....ting! The light bulb goes off and you remember it!"
"Lecture time!!!" (C the V)
"Silent Sustained Coding."
"And by study, I mean memorize." (S. Joo)
Taliff: So what were you doing during the lecture?
Student: Doing the packet...
Taliff: Give me that paper.
Student: Um ok.
*Taliff tears paper to peices*
Taliff: There, you can start over. Mwa ha ha. (C. Wissoker-Cohen)
"While eating your lollipop and licking your raw organic broccoli..." (Anonymous Pi)
"There is no test schedule....yet." (K. Lei)
"Don't say to your neighbor: you're stupid, you're wrong." (K. Lei)
"If you had a 89.67 and I used integer [int()], you would have a B." (K. Lei)
"One decimal place, cool." (K. Lei)
"It _does_ take thinking." (When talking about print formatting) (K. Lei)
"Remember, you may never use short forms in in this class. EVER! Oh, in line 17, when you have to print 55 hyphens you can use short form. Also, you can use it for the first 3 lines." (J. Silverburg)
"How many marbles? He's lost his marbles."
"He might stand up and give my eulogy, saying good stuff about me: blah blah blah, blah blah blah."
"I might actually regrow hair before the score gets to 20." (Talking about while loops)
"Coding needs to improve. Yeah, needs to improve." (When his whole class failed his coding test...)
"When I was your age, I had my piece of charcoal..."
"I'm not a people." (This, and the five quotes before it, Katherine L.)
"Next time I see you guys, I won't be here." (Katherine L)
"Video section and Request Stuff sections are needed." (Dino Sir.)
"Unfortunately, she is in my class." (J. Chuang)
"I can't answer that." (In response to 1+1. C the V)
"Oh look! The white house called! (C the V)
"It's only five questions long.....but it's a 100 point summative." (C the V)
"This site isn't blocked on MCPS computers. I'm on one right now." (T. Mattikalli)
"You get a zero. That's what you deserve!!!" (To crying student about to turn in assignment. Ewok Me)
"It's kinda like an organized mess." ( T. Mattikalli)
"I am not your computer science teacher" (T. Mattikalli)
"These stupid people only give one potato chip." (J. Chuang)
"Count by 2s! Yeah!" ( S. Khurana)
"2, 4, 6, 8, who do you appreciate? Blue Devils! Rah! Rah!" (S. Khurana)
"We could call it... ManHoldingStoolInCorner." (When thinking of variable names. Anonymous Pi.)
"Does this look like a shopping mall?" (S. Khurana)
"Oh, I'm just admiring my code!" (S. Khurana)
"You do not have to concern yourself with those details." (When talking about important basics for writing programs. Anonymous Pi.)
"There is an error. It may be aliens. Sorry." (Anonymous Pi.)
"Don't be smart." (Anonymous Pi again.)
"I will make you optional." ( Still Anonymous Pi)
"Who does not play the piano?" (This and the next 8 quotes: Katherine L.)
"Klicks = 100 meters = 1 kilometer; I KNEW there was a reason I used it years ago in college, I simply forgot why."
"It's not unique to python." (when talking about "import" in python)
"What do I do when I want pi? For math, I want to pick out just pi and square root."
"When I was young, I had to take pipe organ lessons."
"That's and F sharp. I'm going to do this... So that's a module."
"I took piano lessons from 2nd to 9th grade."
"We are going to do a sample test. Do not study for it."
"I have moved the first coding test to December."
"I wasn't listening. I was listening to my joke, again, in my head."
"Just put a little salt and pepper on them and they taste like chicken." (When talking about cats.)
"Mwass."
"Don't think. It's a bad thing to do. " ( A. Hu)
"FEAR. SHEER FEAR." (When asked why he won the SGA election)
"I didn't get out of school till age thirty." ( A. Campbell)
"If there is a lock down, it might be that some men or women broke out of jail and started a gang of four. And suppose they're bad ladies, and even if we lock the door, they have futuristic laser devices that allows them to break down the door. That's why you need to get under your desk, and be quiet. "
"Be a leader! Make up your own words. People will either admire you or think you're crazy."
"I am not allowed say yes to that."
"Thank you for being a quiet student. My one wish for you: Turn on your speaker (voice) and turn up the volume (frequency). You have much to offer (and do)- just offer it more often! Veritas Liberat." (Written in a student's yearbook)
"That is unnapealing to read. "
"Choosing images and photos that were more than appropriate. That were sharp. That really brought you in. If your sport was tiddly winks. "
"Some students have come to me and said, 'This website is perfect!". If it has spinning ponies in it, it has marshmallows dripping from the sky, it has a link with the president, I still might not think it is good. "
"No, you may not play that number game: tic-tac-toe, or anything that resembles a game. " (in reference to 2048)
"Use the subject line BATMAN. Email adresses are like "Speedy ballerina girl", and I don't know who you are."
"How many of you have used apple-based products? For your music, your portable music, how many of you have used an apple? " ( S. Kunnam)
" You may play around in the margins. You may draw arrows. I call it active reading. I'm a big fan of arrows. When you just read, that causes your brain to stop. 'AAA! Aaa! We're not home!'. That's called annotation. What's another synonym? Marginalia."
"There are no errors on this test! Other than there's a sentence that says 'there is an. ' That's an extra sentence. "
"DEADLINE? - Follow the same instructions but place in the Final Web Site DEAD." (A. Davey)
"I have hung up my ninjas. I am very pleased to have these ninjas, whoever sent me these, I am very happy. "
"The terms on a test with a strike through: don't answer those. "
"Page 3: show us an image of someone competing. I want to see competition. "
"The rules might be called 'How To Play.' If your activity is bungee jumping, there might not be any rules besides 'Don't Die'. "
"Some of my students ask, 'Can we do this?' Sometimes our body can do a lot more, but our minds tell us, 'No! No! You can't do it! You'll always be bad at math!' and that inner voice becomes more silent. "
"I do not care about your opinion." (K. Moore)
"Gosh, I wish I had wireless."
"I have a file available. It says, 'Keep Calm and trust the Computer Programmer.' I made it last weekend. I'll see if I can bring it up so you can check it out."
"I have a new folder. It's labelled likes and dislikes. So you want to know about all my likes and dislikes, yeah. My likes and dislikes are changing all the time."
"If you are going to do Python, please pick up Ye Olde Python Textbook. Please choose the textbook that matches your mood."
"Don't try to be cute and put a bad word in your website. Don't be like, 'I'm going to be cute. I'm going to write 'Mud Puddle' ". Don't."
"You kids are lucky you haven't been rounded up yet. That's a nice thing about being an American. In some countries, you can't do that. King George just says, 'Off with their heads!'. But we're a country of rebels. Was my family part of it? No. They came here as indentured servants. Someone owned them. But I'm still a rebel."
"Do you want social time? I'll arrange an after-school detention and we can read the textbook on social interaction."
"Grrrr-rrr. Grrrr."
"YOU GET NO MERCY EVER."
"We live in a social organization. You all have to do your part for our community to move forward. "
"Is there a rule saying you can get out of your seat any time you want? Yes, you have that right. No, you can't get out of your seat."
"You might be from Kansas. Then you should go Google the Kansas City Choir. You might like soprano voices. Then you should listen to them."
"J.S.Bach. He's one of the greatest composers of all time. Is he hot-tempered? Does he have golden curls?"
"My tolerance fuel tank is EmPTY!"
And probably the most terrifying Taliff quote of all time:
"WHY are you writing down everything I say?"