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

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.

Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

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.

... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

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