All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

Think of it as you want it, not as it is!

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.

If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.

I have hobbies. I do all sorts of ridiculous things.

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.