Larry Ellison Quotes

Oracle's Got 100+ Enterprise Applications Live In The #cloud; Today, Sap's Got Nothin' But Successfactors Until 2020.

I Know Some People Are Offended By The Fact That I'm Spending A Lot Of Money Trying To Win The America's Cup. I Could Have Given All That Money To Charity.

If I See Danny Hillis Quoted As An Expert On Mpp One More Time, I'm Going To Puke.

I Think I Am Very Goal Oriented. I'd Like To Win The America's Cup. I'd Like Oracle To Be The No 1 Software Company In The World. I Still Think It Is Possible To Beat Microsoft.

Right Now, 70 Percent Of The People Don't Have Computers. And Where They're Needed Most, People Don't Have Them. We Think This Will Enable Anyone To Own A Computer. We're Aiming At Everybody Who Uses A Computer As An Information Access Device. The Original Idea Was To Build One Cheaply Enough To Put One On Every Desk.

Those That Believe This Is Merely A Downturn Are Mad. Our Industry Is Going To Mature And As Something Matures, The Rate Of Innovation Does Slow.

I Wish Hp Nothing But The Best. I Think Hp Is An Icon. Those Of Us Who Had Their Careers In The Valley Think Of Dave Packard And Bill Hewlett As Role Models. We Would Love To Be Half As Good As They Were.

It's Fascinating As We Continue To Innovate And Lead The Way In Both The Application Space And The Database Space. In The Very Beginning, People Said You Couldn't Make Relational Databases Fast Enough To Be Commercially Viable. I Thought We Could, And We Were The First To Do It. But We Took Tremendous Abuse Until Ibm Said, "oh Yeah, This Stuff Is Good."

Once Open Source Gets Good Enough, Competing With It Would Be Insane.

If The Internet Turns Out Not To Be The Future Of Computing, We're Toast. But If It Is, We're Golden.

Really Great Blogs Do Not Take The Place Of Great Microprocessors. Great Blogs Do Not Replace Great Software. Lots And Lots Of Blogs Does Not Replace Lots And Lots Of Sales.

Most Companies Don't Want Their Data Co-mingled With Other Customers. Small Companies Will Tolerate It.