The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

"Pressure is a privilege—it means you have an opportunity to do something great."

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."

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.

我不害怕风暴，因为我正在学习如何驾驶我的船。

In Russia, severity of laws is compensated for by their non-enforcement.