Larry Ellison

"If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden."

"When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become ric…"

"I hate the PC, with a passion."

"If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our produ…"

"Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales."

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

"Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure."

"Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the Central Intelligence Agency, would get very upset somebody looks in their database."