I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.

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'.

So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.

You cannot innovate by copying.

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

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.