It’s not just what you say that stirs people. It’s the way that you say it.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

【译文】君子可以去救人，却不可陷进去；可以受欺骗，却不可以盲目行动。

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

我们都在阴沟里，但有些人却在仰望星空。

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.

I don't want to be in the bottom quartile, but I don't want to be in the top quartile either. I want to be in the second quartile.