The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

临近水边，时间长了，就会懂得水中鱼的习性；靠近山林，时间长了，就会知道林中鸟儿的声音。

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.

如果你害怕失败，你就不会创新。

"Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat."

听力及视力是开启心智之门。