I want my books to be a mirror, not a window.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
我们对自然的自觉认识所能解决的最直接且在某种意义上最重要的问题，是对未来事件的预测，以便我们能根据这种预测安排当前的事务。
物理学的美丽在于它能够用几个简单的原理解释宇宙。
"The magic of cinema lies in its ability to transport the audience to another world."
恨也罢，爱也罢，思想、感觉、观察也罢，无非都是在领悟。
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.
一个值得观察和探究的奇怪主题是，仇恨和爱在本质上是否不是同一件事。
Being something and doing something that no one had done before are two different things.