"I play each point like my life depends on it."

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.

传统很重要，但进化是必要的。

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

I'm not a person who likes to lose.

Policymakers should be open to revising their views based on new evidence.

The development of algorithms is both an art and a science.