You have to act and act now.

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.

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.

Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.

I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.