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" Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software. "
Larry Ellison
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" When 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.' "
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" What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language. "
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" Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States. "
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" I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese. "
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" Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible. "
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" I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames. "
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" Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron. "
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" We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water. "
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