我活得越久就越发现我从不出错，而我谦卑地花费精力验证自己想法的所有痛苦只是浪费时间。
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
The historian must have a kind of faith that humanity will not and cannot perish.
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 only way to do great work is to love what you do.
人生最重要的是活得开心，其他都是次要。
When basic needs are insecure, all idealism withers.
历史的终结不是事件的终结，而是人类政治和社会制度演进的终结。