——1996年5月29日在哈佛大学演讲
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things, every single day.
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. Data is the new oil. It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value. The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS!
我对诗歌可以作为一种镜子，反映读者自己的经历和情感的方式感兴趣。
“我们都是时间旅行者，在脑海中穿越过去、现在和未来。”
出自晋·葛洪《抱朴子·博喻》。用美玉做成的船和桨，不能用于水上航行;用黄金做弓，玉石做弦，仍没有射箭的功能。（笔杆子 rendoc.com）