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Words that influence my thoughts and action

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.

-- Manuel Laguna

If there is a problem you cannot solve, there must be a simpler problem you can solve.

-- Dan Zhang quotes Polya

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