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.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

I am not what I am.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

作家的秘密不是灵感——因为灵感从何而来永远是个谜——而是固执和耐力。

从有限数据中泛化的能力是有效学习算法的标志。

我不是事实，我是虚构。

我不记得活着的理由了，而我记得的时候，那个理由又没有说服力。