This... ...really means:
This is trivial I forget the proof
This is obvious You forget the proof
This is a calculation Let's all forget the proof
Clearly... Obscurely...
Send me your preprints Please go away
Send me your reprints Please stay away
I'll send you some of my papers Drop dead
Look it up in Dunford and Schwartz In your face
Go ask Prof. Smith over there In his face
Let's make an appointment and talk about it In my face
Read my book I don't know
That problem is intractable I can't do the problem so neither can you
I thought about that question twenty years ago, but I forget the answer I'm more famous than you are
That's the most insightful question I ever heard. Let me think about it You're more famous than I am
Let's write a joint paper on that We're equally famous but I'm lazy
He's one of the four greatest living mathematicians I don't know anything about his mathematics, but this is what Andre Weil said
What are some applications of your theorem? What _is_ your theorem?
I don't understand that step You goofed
How do you reconcile your theorem with this example? You're dead
Your theorem contradicts my theorem I'm dead
I've heard so much about you Stalling a minute may give me time to recall who you are
Who was your advisor? What rock did you crawl out from under?
What was your thesis about? Are you still polishing your thesis?
Where do you teach? Do you have a job?
Your talk was very interesting I can't think of anything to say about your talk
I read one of your papers I wrapped fish with one of your papers
Steven G. Krantz, The Mathematical Intelligenter, 1994