The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

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

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

I think about the business all the time. Well I shouldn't say all the time. I don't think about it when I am wakeboarding. But even when I am on vacation, or on my boat; I am on email everyday. I am always prowling around the internet looking at what our competitors are doing.

Act confident, even when you're not.

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."

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.