我只和自己竞争，不和别人竞争。

对群众运动的领袖而言，见解的精辟与否看来无关宏旨。真正重要的是他敢于摆出自负的姿态，完全漠视别人的意见，不惜一个人单挑世界。

未来属于那些能够自信地拥抱不确定性的人。

Independence is the soul of a nation.

The deeper you go into mathematics, the more you realize how much remains unknown.

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.

神经科学的挑战不仅在于绘制大脑地图，还在于理解它如何创造思维。