The way we perceive the world is heavily influenced by our past experiences and the narratives we tell ourselves.

People who cannot say no, cannot say yes meaningfully either.

投资的好处在于你不需要对每个扔过来的球挥棒。投资诀窍就是坐在那里看着一个个扔来的球，并且等待打到你的最佳位置的那个。

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.

"Writing about the past is a way of making sense of the present and imagining a different future."