A good book is a conversation between the author and the reader.

成为诗人意味着拥有一个如此敏锐的灵魂，以至于没有任何品质的细微差别能逃过它的察觉。

两句以“谦恭但不失尊严，迁就但不失正直”，告诫人们为人处世要不卑不亢，能迁就忍让又坚持原则。

The best leaders are those who listen more than they speak.

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. 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 real competition is not between companies, but between generations of technology.

量子算法的发现从根本上改变了我们对计算复杂性的理解。