Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

We are now taking deals from those players, where before they got them for no apparent reason, ... Companies used to make a summary decision to use just one specific database product, and so they did, irrespective of the need. Today, they are more enlightened and more demanding, and they will use a legacy database for legacy applications and a modern database for modern applications.

Because Patti is a private businesswoman, we won't dissect the deals and the business that she does.

I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was.