Think Of It As You Want It,

It's Microsoft Versus Mankind, With Microsoft Having Only A Slight Lead.

Winning Is Not Enough. All Others Must Lose.

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.

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."

There's A Wonderful Saying That's Dead Wrong. 'why Did You Climb The Mountain?' 'i Climbed The Mountain Because It Was There.' That's Utter Nonsense...you Climbed The Mountain Because You Were There, And You Were Curious If You Could Do It. You Wondered What It Would Be Like.