I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.

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

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

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.

In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

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

There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.