Art is not about representation; it's about presence.

A novelist must be a psychologist, but a psychologist of a special kind—one who understands the souls of men and women as if he had made them.

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.

创新的关键不仅在于跳出框框思考，而是要意识到框框本身就是一个幻觉。

性格软弱，至多只能做到不犯罪恶，如果还要侈谈高尚的美德，那就是狂妄和大胆了。