云计算的本质是让计算资源像水电一样，随时随地按需使用。

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.

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

人类认知存在着局限性。我们往往会根据有限的信息做出全盘的判断，这种倾向可能导致严重的误判。

名称没有本来就合适的，而是由人们共同约定来命名的，约定俗成就是合适的，与约定不同的就是不合适的。