The price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.

"Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter, who adds and subtracts elements according to his own rules."

Challenges are opportunities in disguise—if you're willing to look closely.

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 quality of products reflects the quality of people.

心理学唯一有效的数据是受过训练的观察者的报告。

记忆是一件奇怪的事情。它不像我想象的那样运作。我们不是要记住一切，而是要忘记，继续前进。