The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any society, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.

The power of a story lies in its ability to connect us to something larger than ourselves.

The market is full of noise, and we try to filter it out.

 “每逢你想要批评任何人的时候”，他对我说，“你就记住，这个世界上所有的人，并不是个个都有过你拥有的那些优越条件。”

能源转型不会一夜发生，但我们必须现在就开始。

我们无法改变过去，但我们可以改变对过去的看法。

Don't tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.

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.

科学的历史是其对象生产的历史。