年轻时，你以为世界是一个可以随心所欲生活的地方。但随着年龄增长，你意识到世界是一个你必须按照必须的方式生活的地方。
When you are young, you think that the world is a place where you can live as you choose. But as you get older, you realize that the world is a place where you have to live as you must.
遗传学是活人的考古学。
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.
Leadership is about making the tough decisions when they matter the most.
历史进程是不连续的，重大变革往往是突然发生的，而不是渐进的。