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" Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020. "

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" We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you. "

" I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did. "

" Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron. "

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

" 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.' "

" The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application. "

" 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. "

" I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames. "

" I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum. "

" I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it. "

" To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?' "

" Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software. "

" My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through. "

" Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence. "

" I have had all of the disadvantages required for success. "

" 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. "

" They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want. "

" Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible. "

" When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts. "

" Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded. "

" One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water. "

" We have most of the software industry running Autonomy. "

" I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins. "

" 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. "

" We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs. "

" It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific. "

" When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark. "

" 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. "

" We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java. "

" People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport. "