The Only Way To Get Ahead Is

In Some Ways, Getting Away From The Headquarters And Having A Little Time To Reflect Allows You To Find Errors In Your Strategy. You Get To Rethink Things. Often, That Helps Me Correct A Mistake That I Made Or Someone Else Is About To Make.

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.

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."

I Have Hobbies. I Do All Sorts Of Ridiculous Things.

I Think About The Business All The Time. Well I Shouldn't Say All The Time. I Don't Think About It When I Am Wakeboarding. But Even When I Am On Vacation, Or On My Boat; I Am On Email Everyday. I Am Always Prowling Around The Internet Looking At What Our Competitors Are Doing.