Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

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.

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.

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.