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"Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money."
"There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years."
"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."
"I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity."
"If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke."
"I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft."
"Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk."
"Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid."
"I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised."
"You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change."