The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

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.

人生中有很多我们要选择的事。如果你想精通某件事情，你必须做出一个选择。我们都可以在我们的领域成为大师，但你必须做出选择。我的意思是每一个我们的决定都会伴随着牺牲。和家人相处、和朋友出去玩，身为一个好朋友，一个好儿子、侄子，依据情况而定。这些决定都会伴随着其他事情的牺牲。

我不是来讨人喜欢的，我是来让人记住的。

说到底，作家只是他书的一半。另一半是读者，作家从读者那里学习。