What's the key to study computer science?
"Be Smart"
-- Andrew Yao
Develop methods to solve a set of problems(instead of only one): how meta-heuristics like scatter search works.
Your goal is not to convince people that you are brilliant, but that your solution is trivial. It takes a certain strength of character to take that as one's goal. But if people think your finding are obvious, they must also think that you are correct.
-- Sturat Shieber and Lillian Lee
"Don't hire people, hire students"
-- venture capitalist Demi Guo on cutting startup costs
to be continued