自然权利...是每个人都有权利按照自己的意愿使用他自己的力量来维护自己的本性。

Resilience is what separates the good from the great.

如果一个人不过高地估计自己，他就会比他自己所估计的要高得多。

"A writer's duty is to tell the truth, even when it is uncomfortable."

【译文】 孔子说：“譬如堆山，还差一筐，没堆成就停了，功亏一篑是自己造成的；譬如填坑，只倒一筐，继续填下去，坚持不懈是自己决定的。”

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. The most important thing in a database is the data model. If you get the data model right, everything else will follow. 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.

一个人的工作不过是通过艺术的迂回，缓慢地重新发现两三个伟大而简单的形象，在这些形象面前，他的心第一次敞开。