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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. "

Larry Ellison

Connected

Virtual

Oracle

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Larry Ellison

Autonomy

Thought

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

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

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

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

Larry Ellison

Diego

San Diego

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

Larry Ellison

People

Beautiful

" 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. "

" 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. "