Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

过度捕捞是从子孙后代那里偷窃——我们必须成为制止它的一代。

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·力耕》。非，不是。宝，这句话指好的办法。道，途径、方法。治家并不是只有一种有效的方法，治国并不是只有一条可行的途径。这句话言治家与治国一样，都有许多不同的方法，当事人应当努力寻求，不必因循守旧而无所作为。

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features.

To create is to live twice.

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. 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.

许多人会称我为冒险家，我确实是……只是另一种冒险家：一个用生命去证明真理的人。

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.