I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated.
You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees would face a future with even less hope.
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.