Every song tells a story, and every story has a song. - 每日文摘

把人们引向艺术和科学的最强烈的动机之一，是要逃避日常生活中令人厌恶的粗俗和使人绝望的沉闷，是要摆脱人们自己反复无常的欲望的桎梏。一个修养有素的人总是渴望逃避个人生活而进入客观知觉和思维的世界。

爱因斯坦

阳光不会永远照耀，但只要它还在，我们不妨一起发光。

Sun don't shine forever, but as long as it's here then we might as well shine together.

50美分

人的智慧掌握着三把钥匙，一把开启数字，一把开启字母，一把开启音符。知识思想幻想就在其中。

雨果

未来的改变主要发生在精神领域。比如我们的交往模式、休闲方式、对自己的认知、人生观、与别人建立联系的方式等。

凯文·凯利

如果不终身学习，你们将不会取得很高的成就。光靠已有的知识，你们在生活中走不了多远。离开大学以后，你们还得继续学习，这样才能在生活中走得更远。

查理·芒格

最好的剪辑是那些你注意不到的剪辑。

The best edits are the ones you don't notice.

杰米·塞尔柯克

数据库是企业中最重要的软件，而企业中最重要的软件是数据库。数据库是所有应用程序的基础。数据库是应用程序的心脏，而应用程序是业务的心脏。性能的关键是将热数据保存在内存中。数据库的未来在云端。数据是新的石油。它很有价值，但如果未经提炼，它就不能真正被使用。它必须被转化为气体、塑料、化学品等，以创造一个有价值的实体，推动有利可图的活动；所以数据必须被分解、分析，才能有价值。编程语言中最重要的东西是名字。没有好名字的语言不会成功。我最近发明了一个非常好的名字，现在我正在寻找一种合适的语言。

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.

迈克尔·斯通布雷克

凡铸镜，须得至阴之钢。

沈括

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

投机者是观察未来并在未来发生之前行动的人。

伯纳德·巴鲁克

购买工具：先购买可以找到的最便宜的工具。升级经常使用的。如果使用某种工具来工作，购买能负担得起的最好的。

凯文·凯利

我记得我的老师史禄国先生也告诉我，远在西伯利亚，中国人住下了，不管天气如何，还是要下些种子，试试看能不能种地。——这样说来，我们的民族确是和泥土分不开的了。从土里长出过光荣的历史，自然也会受到土的束缚，现在很有些飞不上天的样子。

费孝通

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，"每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年！"