在数据库的世界里，性能是王道。但没有可靠性的性能是毫无意义的。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

生活是一件非常稀有的事情。

Let us unite and fight for the independence and freedom of our country.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

对任何政府来说，最危险的人是能独立思考的人。