I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

很大程度上运气是我有天才名誉的原因。在早上我不会走进办公室说“今天我聪明吗？，而是说，“今天我幸运吗？——数学家相对于其他人来说最大的优势是，数学家深刻理解“概率。

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 spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome given the alternatives.

Leadership is about empowering others to achieve their full potential.

没有所谓的小时刻；每一刻都包含永恒。

每个故事都是谎言，但在那谎言中，有一个等待被发现的真相。

Art is the wound where light enters.