For me, CS student :

“Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.” - anon

“There are 10 kinds of people in this world….Those who understand binary and those who don’t.” - anon

“Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.”
(Brian Kernigan)

“When someone says: ‘I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done’, give him a lollipop.”  - Alan J. Perlis.

Bear in your mind while developing any kind of system :

“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability” - Edsger W. Dijkstra

“Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.” - Eagleson’s law

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
(Bill Gates)

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