A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Larry EllisonI think after a certain amount, Iām going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.
Larry EllisonWhen you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.
Larry EllisonGreat achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
Larry EllisonIf 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.
Larry Ellison