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.

最激动人心的发现往往来自意想不到的地方。

应对不自由世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。

——2006年6月15日，盖茨在宣布将退出微软日常管理工作新闻发布会上的发言

"Capitalist realism is what happens when people stop believing that capitalism is a temporary system, and instead see it as the only possible reality."

Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.