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)

Event my base work often deal with other languange, i still loving C

“I have yet to meet a C compiler that is more friendly and easier to use than eating soup with a knife.”

“Evolution of the C programmer:

• 0 months to 1 month: complete beginner
• 1 month to 1 year: incomplete beginner
• 1 year to 2 years: acolyte
• 2 years to 3 years: adept
• 3 years to 8 years: expert
• at 8 years: discovers comp.lang.c
• 8 years+: buggrit, back to beginner again !”

— Richard Heathfield.

The more I C, the less I see.”

My first unix experience is when i’m taking operating system course at the university. Wonderful.. i found so many unique but elegant thing in there..

“VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.”    — W. Davidson.

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.  We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” - Jeremy S. Anderson

Web, web and web :

“The Web is like a dominatrix.  Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.” - Nytwind

“True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it.” -Timm Martin

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