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

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

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

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.

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.

All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can't worry about it, you can't panic when you look at the stock market's decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.