People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. I think if you work hard enough, you can please anybody.

You have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

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.

我认为冒险很重要，要走出你的舒适区。

没有什么比心里藏着一个未讲的故事更痛苦的了。