抱最好的希望，做最坏的打算。

In computer science, we stand on the shoulders of giants.

译文：鸟的羽毛尚未丰满，就不能展翅高飞。

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.

从长远来看，未来是由乐观主义者决定的。成为一个乐观主义者，不是要忽视现有的许多问题，而是想象怎么才能改善我们解决问题的能力。

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.