Perhaps this one fits as well: Before mastering C, bits are bits, bytes are bytes and pointers are pointers. While learning C, bits are no longer bits, bytes

Perhaps this one fits as well: Before mastering C, bits are bits, bytes are bytes and pointers are pointers. While learning C, bits are no longer bits, bytes are no longer bytes, and pointers are no longer pointers. After mastering C, bits are once again bits, bytes are once again bytes, and pointers are once again pointers.