如果我们认为可以将主动数据库系统中过程与数据的比率任意减小，甚至保持较小，那我们就是在开玩笑。
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
"The only journey is the one within."
My scientific studies have afforded me great satisfaction; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
Innovation is the vitality of the infrastructure industry, without innovation there is no future.
The poet's duty is to illuminate the darkness.
宣传之于民主，正如棍棒之于极权国家。
作品的物质性非常重要——它必须有一种存在感。