Quotes from ESQC-00


Waiter (to Montse): "Can I take your plate?"
Montse: "It's your job."


NH (after writing a big E with a permanent marker directly on the OH projector): "Why cleaning it? Most equations start with an E!"


RA (hearing some noise in his lecture disturbing him): "Where is my shotgun?"


Daniel: "Does CASPT2 have any gradients?"
BOR: "Shall I kill you now or later?"


BOR: "Don't I perform enough?"
PT: "Yes, but we want something entertaining this time!"


anonymous: "Don't worry about what he is saying in the lecture, everyone else is sleeping anyway"


NH (showing some numbers): "Some discussion on this value, but I would argue that both CASPT2 AND experiment are wrong in this case"


Laura: "I don't think the waiters can understand English"
BOR: "Yes? But I think he's flirting with you"
Waiter (after getting the last sentence translated): "I hope so"


BOR (showing some numbers): So, do you think you can reproduce those numbers with DFT, Nick?"
NH: "Is your program accurate to 11 figures?"


PT (about the difference between experimental and calculated numnbers): "Then you have a post- doc walking around, saying: I should have changed my career, I should have become a medical doctor like my mum always said"


BOR: "I thought the Pizza was one of the best meals here"
PT: "That shows what a desperate diet you are on in Sweden"


BOR: "Why did you give me the desert? Was it so obvious that I wanted it?"
Laura: "Yes."


Collected by Daniel Boese.