我想卖出一百万张唱片，我卖出了一百万张。我想获得白金唱片；我获得了白金唱片。我从15岁开始就一直在不停地工作。我甚至不知道如何放松。

The past is not dead. It is not even past.

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.

政治被认为是第二古老的职业。我逐渐意识到它与第一职业（指卖淫）极为相似。

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.

历史总是个人的。