When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.

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

We saw — we conducted the experiment. I mean, it’s been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we’re gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

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

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

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.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.