A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. A poor man's body is like a stone, hard and rough and full of edges.
富人的身体就像高级棉枕头，又白又软又空。穷人的身体就像石头，又硬又粗糙，满是棱角。
你的态度决定你的方向。
Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
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.
最可怕的时刻总是在你开始之前。
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
我不是独奏，我是二重奏。
勇气不是没有恐惧，而是战胜恐惧。
