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- Why do I spend so time on this? Why have spent so many years on them?
Why do they fascinate me so much? Why did I quit my job and build an open source database engine with my own money, when I wasn't wealthy and I had a family to support?
Why the hell did I do that?
Because I think database technologies are among the most important fundamental advancements of humanity and our collective consciousness. I think databases are as important as telecommunications and the internet. I think they are as important as any scholarly library -- and that libraries are the earliest non-digital databases. I think databases are almost as important the invention of the written word.
Wintermute · 4119 days ago · link ·
Perhaps a bit hyperbolic and light on reasoning. Sure, databases are ubiquitous, but I still don't know why they matter. (At least no from reading the article.)