I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

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 the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.

Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible.

All you can do is all you can do.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.