自动化不是为了取代人，而是为了让他们的工作更轻松、更高效。

预测未来的最好方法是研究过去。

Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.

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. 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.

我越是坚定地作为自己存在于时代的条件中，我就越清晰地听到过去的语言，越感受到普遍历史的呼吸。

译文：别人的话不可全信，一定要理性的分析和判断是否属实；遇到事情不可仓促去做，一定要三思而后行，分析是否合情合理，然后才能付诸行动。赏析：常言道，尽信书不如无书。这句话放在为人处世上也有借鉴意义。不管别人对某事某人说好或是歹，我们都不能随声附和，人云亦云，要有自己的分析判断。做事如果鲁莽行事，不懂得冷静思考，往往会招致大祸。

艺术是唯一一种不用离家就能逃离的方式。

Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements.