All You Can Do Is Every Day,

It's Fascinating As We Continue To Innovate And Lead The Way In Both The Application Space And The Database Space. In The Very Beginning, People Said You Couldn't Make Relational Databases Fast Enough To Be Commercially Viable. I Thought We Could, And We Were The First To Do It. But We Took Tremendous Abuse Until Ibm Said, "oh Yeah, This Stuff Is Good."

We Will Still Be Enormously Profitable And By Far The Most Profitable Enterprise Software Company.

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.

You Can't Spend As Much Money As I Have, Even If You Try. I've Been Trying.

The Things That Caused Problems For Me In School Are The Same Things That Help Me Succeed In The World.