You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

在股市中，最重要的不是预测未来，而是理解现在。

在灵魂中找到上帝不是通过添加任何东西，而是通过一个减法的过程。

魔法，如同任何其他力量，本身既非善也非恶。决定其性质的是它所服务的目的。

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.

Architecture is a language that conveys ideas through space and form.