领导力的真正考验不是你在被关注时做什么，而是你在独处时做什么。
The true test of leadership is not what you do when you're being watched, but what you do when you're alone.
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
高尚的人是履行自己职责而不关心结果的人。
Action and knowledge are not obstacles to each other.
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.
成功的真正标准是影响力，而不是荣誉。
中西文化的融合不是简单的拼凑，而是产生新物质的化学反应。
复杂性理论告诉我们，并非所有问题都是平等的；有些问题本质上比其他问题更难。
完成比完美更重要。