Writing is a way of making sense of the past.

译文：与别人不去争长短，常常懂得知足，心情就会平静没有忧愁担心。赏析：不与人争得失，惟求己有知能。事事争个输赢，比个高低，烦恼就会很多，灾难也就更多。如果放低姿态，懂得知足常乐，事情自然就会水到渠成。

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. The database is the foundation of all applications.

宇宙并不比我们想象的更奇怪，而是比我们能够想象的更奇怪。

宋代思想史展现了儒家伦理、佛教精神与道家自然主义的独特融合。

一纸文凭不见得就可以造就一个人，正如同牢狱生涯也不见得会打垮每一个人。

The key to successful investing is to buy stocks at a discount to their intrinsic value.

有时候东西碎了，就无法再拼回去。