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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. "

" What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were. "

" 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. "

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

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" We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers. "

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

" 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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