缺乏一个强大的国家对自由的威胁比存在一个强大的国家更大。
The absence of a strong state is a greater threat to liberty than its presence.
数学不仅仅是关于数字、方程、计算或算法：它是关于理解的。
Innovation should never be a one-time event; it must be ingrained in the culture of the organization.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
最大的危险是不冒任何风险。
Patience and persistence are the keys to unlocking the mysteries of mathematics.
The challenge is to make something ordinary extraordinary.