A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

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.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

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

You cannot innovate by copying.

Act confident, even when you're not.