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 silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.

The only way to be free is to constantly challenge authority and convention.

【释义】善于为别人着想的人能够为自己着想，善于管理别人的人能够管理好自己。

领导力在于让他人因为你的存在而变得更好，并确保这种影响在你离开后依然持续。

Transparency and accountability are fundamental to building trust with stakeholders.

一本书是作者和读者之间的对话，一种超越时间和空间的对话。

Everyone has their own story, and every story deserves to be heard.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.