Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

最好的想法往往来自最意想不到的地方。

做你自己；其他人都已经有人做了。

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble， competent people on a level with dentists， that would be splendid.

"Every story is a journey, and every journey changes the traveler."

True artistry lies in the ability to make people feel something deep and unforgettable.

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 dangerous lies are the ones we believe about ourselves.