Gauss's Law

"Now, now, you might be sayin', 'Dr. Quon, what's so great about Gauss's Law?'. Well (gestures wildly at board as if words are futile) the left hand side [of the equation] is ugly. What makes it ugly? You've got vectors and a dot product and integrals. And the right side? Well, the right side is easy. That's like, that's like saying something that's ugly is equal to something that's easy..." (guys in the corner start snickering; then the whole class starts) "...why are you guys laughing?" --my physics teacher