Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better.
In computer science, we stand on each other's shoulders.
我们今天所做的每一个决定都在塑造我们明天生活的世界。
The interplay between theory and practice in computer science is what drives innovation and progress.