The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.

A company that does not innovate is a company that does not grow.

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.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

We have three criteria. If it’s publicly traded， liquid and amenable to modeling， we trade it.