People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it.

改变的秘诀是将你所有的精力集中在建设新事物上，而不是与旧事物斗争。

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

译文：坚贞的操守与日月一样高悬于天，独特的香花随着千山万壑传播到远方。赏析：我们要把自身的德行和操守像香花一样传遍世间，不做违背道德和法律的事情。

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 find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The most successful leaders are those who can see around corners and anticipate change before it happens.

True leadership in resources means seeing decades ahead while delivering results today.

可持续性不是一种选择，而是我们对后代的责任。