Success is not about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.
I am now physically incapable of doing any of the things I used to enjoy, but I don’t miss them.
Writing is a way of exorcising the demons that haunt us.
Sustainability is not about doing less harm - it's about doing more good.
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.
"A journey is just as important as the destination, perhaps more so."