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.

Art is explosion, explosion is art.#艺术就是爆炸，爆炸就是艺术。

问题不是“我们想知道关于人们的什么？”，而是“人们想告诉我们关于他们自己的什么？”

Words are the only bullets some of us have.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

The boundary between physics and mathematics is not as clear-cut as we might think.