Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Leadership is about making tough decisions, not just popular ones.

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.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.

真正的领导力在于赋能他人取得成功。

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

技术是工具，人才是灵魂，两者结合才能创造价值。