You have to be passionate about what you do, otherwise it's not worth it.

The database is the most important piece of software in the enterprise.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful.

So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.

I’m not a guy that’s going to let my love for my name down.

预测未来的最好方法就是去发明它。