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'.

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

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

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."

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.

Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.