When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don’t know what you are going to do.
Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits.
Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn’t cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.
If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.
Winning is not enough. All others must lose.
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, ‘I’d like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?’
The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it’s enormously useful in life.
I believe people have to follow their dreams-I did.
You cannot innovate by copying.
If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements.
Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I’m going to puke.
I’m right, and everyone else is wrong.
When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.
Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.
What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don’t like it? Nothing.
I’m addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.
You have to act and act now.
Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.