If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.
Larry EllisonIt'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."
Larry EllisonGreat achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
Larry EllisonOnce the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.
Larry Ellison