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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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Larry Ellison

Love

Good

Think

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Larry Ellison

Internet

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

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

" 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. "

" Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high. "

Larry Ellison

Autonomy

Thought

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

" 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. "

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

Larry Ellison

Diego

San Diego

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead. "

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