A collection of quotes from Professor Ralph Noble, a professor of psychology
at RPI.  Specifically, these were taken from his Psychology of Motivation
class, Fall semester 1991.

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- "If you're salt-deficient, you'll go lick the sweat off your significant
other...there are other physiological drives that will cause the same behavior."

- On Siamese Fighting Fish:  "They're beautiful, they're elegant, they're
vicious as hell...there's a real life lesson here somewhere."

- "If I could go through the dorms and shoot people, exam pressures would be
put into perspective."

- "As you approach 4.0, study time approaches infinity."

- On 'the totally suffering individual' (i.e. no food, no oxygen, no water, no
self-esteem, no safety, no friends, no money, sick and in pain, etc.)  "You
can't do this with people, which takes all the fun out of life."

- "In the spirit of today, when I'm handing out the exams, we're going to
further examine the totally suffering individual."

- "No beer?  I think that comes under 'sick and in pain.'"

- "We're going to talk about sex -- actually, you're going to talk about sex,
because I can't remember."

- "If money stopped buying things, I'd lose interest in it."

- On fear-reduction techniques & how they can be used to make a bad
relationship last:  "If I could use these techniques as well as I can explain
them, do you  think I'd be here?  And if I was here, I'd look a lot more
tired and happy."

- "They don't let us beat students anymore, but my fantasy life is my own
business."

- "I've been in the academic world a long time...I can sleep with my eyes open,
which is an important skill for those of you considering jobs in middle and
upper management."

- "I learned to put the [toilet] seat down...it makes you look like a warm,
caring, sensitive human being."

- "She's human...well, she's a lawyer, but reasonably human."

- "We're going to assume a few things about reality.  One, it exists.  That's
not a necessary assumption, but I find it comforting."

- "I may be more of a romantic than some of you, so feel free to throw up if
you have to."

- "Let's assume the semester's over, so dying is a bad thing."

- "A college professor is someone smart enough to get a Ph.D., but too crazy to
make a living."

- "There's a large amount of evidence saying that the man's point of view is
largely irrelevant."

- "Sean Connery is the sexiest man alive?  Was I on the list?"