要得到你想要的某样东西，最可靠的办法是让你自己配得上它。这是一个十分简单的道理，是黄金法则。你们要学会推己及人，方能成事。

媒体必须日复一日地成长——它是我们党最锋利、最强大的武器。

Success is not about the money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

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.

一座建筑应该讲述它的时代和地点，但渴望永恒。