"I'm not interested in just copying a photograph. I'm interested in the transformation that takes place when you make a painting."

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. 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.

真相并不总是美丽的，但它总是必要的。

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

分别时南飞的鸿雁刚刚北去，今日北归的大雁又已南飞

对付一个不自由的世界唯一的方法就是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。