I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.

90% of the world's data was created in the last two years

I love software and I love technology.

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.

When I look out from my own business career, I tried to learn from some of the best people, regardless of the industry.

My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.