Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

宣判死刑之人应当亲自挥剑。

生活并非易事……除非你面前有一个伟大的理想，将你提升到个人的痛苦、软弱以及各种背信弃义和卑鄙之上，否则你无法度过它而不陷入沮丧和愤世嫉俗。

The essence of philosophy is not the possession of truth but the search for truth.

人生就像一场逆行的旅程，我也只是其中的一个过客。

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. 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.

Trust doesn’t mean that you trust that someone won’t screw up—it means you trust them even when they do screw up.