The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.

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.

I'm drawn to materials that have a history.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Energy security and affordability must remain priorities as we transition to lower-carbon solutions.

The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.

Innovation is not just about creating new drugs, but about transforming lives.