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Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

— Larry Ellison

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Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on.

If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it.

So remember this graduates: when people start saying you're crazy, you just might be on to the most important innovation of your life.

When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working.

Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the Central Intelligence Agency, would get very upset [if] somebody looks in their database.

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