只要完全消除对尘世的眷恋之情，那么心灵之镜就会明亮澄彻，所以从外部关注自己的影像，不如从内部进行自我省察，驱除庸俗的念头；只要看破红尘，打消对如梦幻泡影一样的世事的执著之念，那么自身天性就会像明珠一样晶莹剔透，熠熠生辉，要做世间少有的通达超脱之人，最关键的还是要保护好自家内心的那一份纯真。

语言中最具破坏性的一句话是：“我们一直都是这样做的。”

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

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.

上帝要谁灭亡，必先让他疯狂。