布斯纳路易•布斯纳和儒勒•凡尔纳总是不失时机地给人传授知识。他们在最关键的时刻中断故事,着重描写一株毒草,一座土著人居所。作为读者,我跳过这些专题技术性描写;作为作者,我的小说充斥了这类东西。 日暮黄昏,阴影笼罩餐室的时候,我把小书桌推到窗前,焦虑油然再起。我笔下的主人公个个高尚绝伦,起先怀才不遇,后来一鸣惊人,他们对我百依百顺,正说明他们毫无定见。这时候,它来了:一个使人晕头转向的生物吸引着我,但迷离恍惚,要看清,必须把它描摹下来。我赶紧结束正在展开的奇遇,把我笔下的各种人物带到地球的另一端,一般在海底或地下,我急于让他们面临新的危险,让他们临时充当潜水员或地质学者,发现那个怪物的踪迹,跟上去,突然与它相遇。与此同时,在我笔下出现火眼章鱼,二十吨重的甲壳动物,会说话的巨蜘蛛蟹。其实这个怪物就是我这个魔童:我的百无聊赖,我对死亡的恐惧,我的庸俗和反常。当时我并没有认出自己,邪恶的东西一经问世就跟我作对,跟我勇敢的洞穴学者们作对,我为他们担忧。我的心很激动,手不由己地写下一行一行的文字,好像在念别人写的东西一样。 我已开始发现自己。我几乎什么也不是,充其量在从事一项毫无内容的活动,但这已经足够了。我逃脱了喜剧:我还没有真下功夫,便已不再演戏了。说谎人在炮制谎言中发现了自己的真相。我在写作中诞生,在这之前只不过是迷惑人的游戏;从写第一部小说,我已明白一个孩子已经进入玻璃宫殿。对我来说,写作即存在;我摆脱了成年人,我的存在只是为了写作;如果我说“我”,这指的就是写作的我。不管怎么说,反正我领略了喜悦,我是属于大家的孩子,却和自己在私下幽会。
写作是一种理解我所无法理解之事的方式。
预测未来的最好方法就是去创造它。
I'm a survivor, I'm not gonna give up, I'm not gonna stop, I'm gonna work harder.
"I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger."
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 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.
实验中的精确性和假设中的创造性同样重要。