Once Open Source Gets Good

When You Write A Program For Android, You Use The Oracle Java Tools For Everything, And At The Very End, You Push A Button And Say, Convert This To Android Format.

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."

Bill Gates Wants People To Think He's Edison, When He's Really Rockefeller. Referring To Gates As The Smartest Man In America Isn't Right... Wealth Isn't The Same Thing As Intelligence.

Once The Business Data Have Been Centralized And Integrated, The Value Of The Database Is Greater Than The Sum Of The Preexisting Parts.

To Model Yourself After Steve Jobs Is Like, 'i'd Like To Paint Like Picasso, What Should I Do? Should I Use More Red?'