These four years remain the most influential, difficult and interesting part of my life. It gave me an insight into the world like never before. The most important thing I learnt here was:
Computer science is not glorified programming. Edsger Dijkstra, Turing Award winner and extremely opinionated man, famously said that computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes. We claim that computer science is a mathematical set of tools, or body of ideas, for understanding just about any system—brain, universe, living organism, or, yes, computer.
-- Scott Aaronson, Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science, MIT.
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