在桂林学界迎会的演说，1922年1月22日

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.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man.

我们如海鸥之与波涛相遇似地，遇见了，走近了。海鸥飞去，波涛滚滚地流开，我们也分别了。

Sometimes the most powerful moments are the ones left unsaid.

成功不是终点，失败也不是致命的：继续前进的勇气才是最重要的。

We must listen to both scientists and fishermen to find balanced solutions.