Amita Ramanujan quotes from Numb3rs

Amita Ramanujan

[about Larry and Alan arguing] It's like this one time, when Bugs Bunny tricks Duffy Duck into declaring duck season, by declaring rabbit season. And then Elmer Fudd shoots Duffy Duck and his beak spin around. It's really very funny!

Amita Ramanujan

[to her kidnapper] My book will be called 'Two days with a computer illiterate'!

Amita Ramanujan

Actually, I'm spoken for, Mr. Eppes.

Alan Eppes

Really?

Amita Ramanujan

Back in Madras my parents arranged for marriage to a family friend. Nice Hindu banker from Goa.

Charlie Eppes

Really? Getting married?

Amita Ramanujan

God, no. He's a total ass.

Charlie Eppes

I'm sorry, but does that ever work? Just coming out and being so ... obvious?

Amita Ramanujan

Well, if it's the right guy, sure.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

I'm avoiding Laurel Wilson.

Amita Ramanujan

The professor of philosophy of science?

Charlie Eppes

She's the lady you go hiking with?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

For years we've enjoyed this ... I don't know ... delightful wilderness-based friendship, entirely platonic. But last night, she and I just veered ... we veered off into the carnal.

Amita Ramanujan

I'm taking it didn't go well.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Actually, it was incredible. It was primal. I mean, in the animal, not the numerical, sense. But what I'm saying, this was a perfect event, and, as such, untwinnable.

Amita Ramanujan

So, because the sex was great, the odds are against it ever being great again.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

The replication defies the laws of probability.

Amita Ramanujan

[dryly] So, why try?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

[missing the sarcasm] Yes, yes. That's why I'm here. I mean, it's the perfect refuge.

Charlie Eppes

What do you mean, "the perfect refuge"?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Well, the math department must be the least libidinous place on campus.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Children are wormholes. They're portals into the unreachable future and unattainable past. Well as .the things stand now, they exist only in theoretical realms.

Amita Ramanujan

Well.. I consider, you might have some trouble selling a woman the idea of carrying your wormhole.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

You know, that term "dark matter" has always perplexed me. It fallaciously implies that the 95% of our universe that cannot be observed is some amorphous, eventless emptiness.

Amita Ramanujan

I'm sorry?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

I guess it's all too human. Instead of admitting to the present limits of our knowledge, we just declare things to be unknowable.

Amita Ramanujan

So, Larry, what are you going to do with all of your stuff?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Oh, I don't know. Hey, you can take home your dinnerware if you want.

Charlie Eppes

Hey, Amita, do you remember that we were going to do that one thing earlier?

Amita Ramanujan

What thing?

Charlie Eppes

That thing you said we needed to do. Let's go do it.

Megan Reeves

What was that?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Merely a very crude attempt at lending privacy.

Amita Ramanujan

Oh, by the way ... Larry called, from his string theory conference. He was confused about something.

Charlie Eppes

What, his-his double special relativity theory?

Amita Ramanujan

No. Whether he was in St. Louis or Cleveland.

Charlie Eppes

[sighs] He's so geographically challenged. Where is his conference?

Amita Ramanujan

Minneapolis.

Charlie Eppes

[To Amita when she is leaving, clearly upset] What, did I say something I shouldn't have?

Amita Ramanujan

I don't know, Charlie. It's just that my job is starting to feel like it's all about your job.

Charlie Eppes

I'm using differential equations to perfect the chocolate chip cookie.

Amita Ramanujan

[takes a bite of a cookie] Needs bigger chips.

Megan Reeves

So where's all the money go?

Amita Ramanujan

Most of the money stays in Mexico.

Charlie Eppes

Death Squad Retirement fund.

Charlie Eppes

Since when did you become my conscience?

Amita Ramanujan

Around the same time we started making out.

Amita Ramanujan

Byzantines fighting side by side with Cowboys and Indians?

Charlie Eppes

I had an imaginative childhood.