The best leaders are those who empower others to lead.

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. The database is the foundation of all applications.

"We are all the sum of our stories, and biography helps us understand the equation."

The elegance of a proof is as important as its correctness.

我经常需要独处。如果我能从周六晚上到周一早上独自待在我的公寓里，我会非常高兴。这就是我如何给自己充电的。

最好的科学家是那些永远保持学生心态的人。

I tend to think that the longer you look at a thing, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

"The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up.