You have to be your own biggest believer before anyone else will believe in you.

Neither power nor wealth, only the scepters of art endure.

了解你是否能信任某人的最好方法就是去信任他们。

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.

作一年的打算，最好是种植五谷；作十年的打算，最好是种植树木；作终身的打算，最好是培育人才。

Don’t regret getting older. It’s a privilege denied to many.

诗人的笔比战士的剑更有力。

文学是发现普通人身上非凡之处的艺术，用普通的语言说出非凡的事情。

孔子说：“生来就知道的，是上等人；学习后才知道的，是二等人；遇到困难才学习的，是三等人；遇到困难也不学习的，这就是下等人了。”

每本书都是作者首先要独自经历的旅程。

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.