The strength of a nation's institutions is not just in their formal rules, but in the informal norms that govern behavior and the degree to which they are internalized by the population.

The thrill of discovery never gets old.

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.

我们今天的每一个决定都将在未来几十年影响海洋生态系统。

释义：吃一点亏并没有什么大碍，退让三分也无妨。春天刚看到杨柳变绿，秋天又看到菊花变黄，生活就是这样不断变化的。

The worst pain a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.