最好的领导者是那些最热衷于让比自己更聪明的人围绕在自己身边的人。

译文：蛮横无理的泼妇，啼哭怒骂的招数不过是那些而已，只要静下心来，镇定自若，泰然处之，她们便会自觉终止。挑拨离间，搬弄是非的人，情况看上去虽然很紧迫，但如果能淡然处之，置之不理，那些人就会自觉没趣，立马消失。赏析：世上什么样的人都有，我们越较真，对方越会咬着不放，只要我们不予理睬，看淡别人的嬉笑怒骂，无视别人的挑拨离间，对方就会自讨没趣，事情就会顺遂如意。

你永远不知道你的坏运气为你避免了什么更糟糕的运气。

人们往往认为，现在的政客比过去的政客要糟糕得多。但我们往往忘记了过去的政客有多糟糕。

When you measure success only in quarterly profits, you miss the bigger picture.

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.