The best novels are those that manage to create autonomous worlds, worlds that function according to their own laws and logic.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

The database is the most important piece of software in the enterprise, and the most important piece of software in the enterprise is the database. The database is the foundation of all applications. The database is the heart of the application, and the application is the heart of the business. The key to performance is to keep the hot data in memory. The future of databases is in the cloud.