The greatest journeys are the ones that change us without our noticing.

The only way to get through pain is to go through it.

建筑不是关于形式，而是关于关系。

外交的任务是延长决策的时间。

坚持和耐心总会带来成果。

知识最大的敌人不是无知，而是知识的幻觉。

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.

文学是最具颠覆性的武器，因为它通过说服而非武力改变思想。