The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

黄金和白银，像其他商品一样，具有内在价值，这不是任意的，而是取决于它们的稀缺性、获取它们所耗费的劳动量以及在矿山中使用的资本价值。

The most important thing in mathematics is to ask the right questions.

真相很少是纯粹的，也从不简单。

The decisions of the poor are often heartbreakingly rational.

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.

我不相信上帝，但我想念他。