译文：纵览历史，凡是贤明的国和家，成功源于勤俭，衰败起于奢华。赏析：节俭不是吝啬，是对钱财的合理利用。不管何时，我们都要有忧患意识，保持俭朴的作风。

"We are all patchworks of our experiences, memories, and the stories we tell ourselves."

未来已经到来——只是分布不均。

History is written by the victors, but art can rewrite it.

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.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?