If The Internet Turns Out

Five Years From Now, I Don't Know How I'll Think.

We Have Been Doing Things That Are Contrary; The Things That People Tell Us Won't Work From The Beginning. In Fact, The Only Way To Get Ahead Is To Find Errors In Conventional Wisdom.

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.

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.

I Have Run Engineering Since Day One At Oracle, And I Still Run Engineering. I Hold Meetings Every Week With The Database Team, The Middle Ware Team, The Applications Team. I Run Engineering And I Will Do That Until The Board Throws Me Out Of There.