The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

安全不是成本——它是对我们最宝贵资源（人）的投资。

科学是跨越数代人的协作努力。

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.

合作是解决科学领域最大挑战的关键。

我经常需要独处。如果我能从周六晚上到周一早上独自待在我的公寓里，我会非常高兴。这就是我如何给自己充电的。