Quotes

• "[Confusing first words to 1st years] Hello and welcome to Introduction to Geometry. My name is Bas Lemmens. If you and your neighbour get bored with my lecture, here's a game you can play. [Walks over to board and draws some pencils.] Take some pencils and put them in 2 sets. Then you can take either a pencil from one set or a pencil from both sets, and the winner is the person who takes the last pencil. See if you can win." - 2004

• "Bas Lemmens: 'This part of the module will not be lectured and examined.' Student: 'So are you saying that it will be examined.' Bas Lemmens: 'No, that was the only statement in my entire lecture that I thought would confuse nobody and it just has.'" - 2005