The more one judges, the less one loves.

Grief is love's shadow.

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.

历史是当下投下的阴影。

在探索现实的基本性质的追求中，我们必须准备好质疑我们认为我们所知道的一切。

这句话其实是莎士比亚借哈姆雷特之口说的，但是霍金非常喜欢，曾在自己著作中多次引用，所以很多人误以为本句话是霍金说的。

——《在神户国民党交通部欢迎会的演说》（1913年3月13日）

人生短暂，但智慧是永恒的。