Larry Ellison

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

Larry Ellison

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

Larry Ellison

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.

Larry Ellison

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements.

Larry Ellison

The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it’s enormously useful in life.

Larry Ellison

The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.

Larry Ellison

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

Larry Ellison

They don’t call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I’m no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

Larry Ellison

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

Larry Ellison

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.

Larry Ellison