Afghanistan is the land of my past, the place where I had laughed and cried, but it was no longer my home.

I've learned that you can't control everything, but you can control how you react to it.

You just once young but may be immature indefinitely.

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.

在追求远大目标的过程中，要像完成最终目标那样去庆祝哪怕最微小的胜利。这样无论你最后可以走多远，你都是胜利的。

对红海的关注假设行业的结构条件是既定的，企业被迫在其中竞争。

所有契约的价值，都是由契约者的欲望来衡量的。

Leadership in mining means being accountable for both profits and the planet.