创新不仅仅是创造新事物，而是以最有效的方式解决实际问题。

Innovation in database systems is not just about speed, but also about adaptability and scalability.

And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.

A writer is selected by his subject—his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.