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.

诠释学循环不是一个恶性循环，而是理解的必要条件。

想像力比知识更重要。因为知识是有限的，而想像力是无限,它包含了一切,推动着进步,是人类进化的源泉。

The writer must be a heretic, a questioner of all absolutes.

Simplicity is not the absence of complexity, but the resolution of it.

以平和的态度与人相处，但贵在有坚定不移的原则。对待自己须刚正，但贵在处事圆融通达而不拘泥。

在文学中时间不是线性的；作家可以弯曲它、扭转它、使它循环。