数据库的真正力量在于其能够提供以前无法想象的洞察力。

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

永远不要在你拥有钱之前就花掉它。

读经书，阅传注，就为治学打下坚实基础；看史籍，鉴古今，就使宏论滔滔切中肯綮；游山川，观壮景，就使志气凌云眼界开阔；戒嗜好，弃私欲，就使胸怀磊落一尘不染。

树木是大地向倾听的天空诉说的无尽努力。

我不是赢家，我是输家。

与在现实世界中实现客观理性行为所需解决的问题规模相比，人类心智制定和解决复杂问题的能力非常有限。