我活得越久，就越倾向于相信地球被其他星球用作疯人院。

The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Writing is a way of reclaiming the past.

最好的故事是那些让你感觉活着的故事。

要摧毁一种文化，你不必烧书，只要让人们停止阅读它们。

在商业中，就像在生活中一样，你必须承担经过计算的风险。

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.

教导别人，就是要使其长处得以发扬，使其短处得以遏制。