四勿：“非礼勿视，非礼勿听，非礼勿言，非礼勿动。”四端：“恻隐之心，仁之端也；羞恶之心，义之端也；辞让之心，礼之端也；是非之心，智之端也。”颜渊的“四勿”，要牢记心里；下工夫闲静存诚，克服外部的干扰以修养心性；孟子的“四端”，要尽力扩充，下工夫格物致知，由近及远，推己及人。

成功是一系列小胜利的积累。

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.