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" To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?' "
Larry Ellison
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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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" 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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" We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible. "
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" Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses. "
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" Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. "
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" 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. "
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Place
" When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts. "
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You
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" 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. "
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Language
Brand
Two
" 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. "
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" Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications. "
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" 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. "
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Home
Rose
Sun
" I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames. "
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Day
Who
Playing
" Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high. "
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" We have most of the software industry running Autonomy. "
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Autonomy
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Most
" Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded. "
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" It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead. "
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Having
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" 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. "
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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 own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet. "
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Virtual
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" 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. "
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