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.

Quality should never be compromised, no matter the cost.

人生的主要任务就是：识别和区分事物，这样我就能清楚地告诉自己哪些是外部不可控的，哪些是我实际可控的选择。

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

The concrete artist strives to express the spiritual in the most precise and objective form possible.