Larry Ellison quote: "I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins."

We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: ...
LARRY ELLISON

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
LARRY ELLISON

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

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Vall...
LARRY ELLISON

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

I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
LARRY ELLISON

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I d...
LARRY ELLISON

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help fi...
LARRY ELLISON

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
LARRY ELLISON

Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
LARRY ELLISON

It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own ...
LARRY ELLISON

What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those peo...
LARRY ELLISON

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
LARRY ELLISON

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
LARRY ELLISON

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big ch...
LARRY ELLISON

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
LARRY ELLISON

I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
LARRY ELLISON

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisti...
LARRY ELLISON

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' b...
LARRY ELLISON

We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM an...
LARRY ELLISON

We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers runni...
LARRY ELLISON

Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
LARRY ELLISON

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very ...
LARRY ELLISON

Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes...
LARRY ELLISON

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
LARRY ELLISON

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gat...
LARRY ELLISON

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
LARRY ELLISON

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows, .....
LARRY ELLISON

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for mode...
LARRY ELLISON

I don't think Oracle and IBM want another Microsoft in Red Hat.
LARRY ELLISON

I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,
LARRY ELLISON

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth, but you ain't seen nothing yet,
LARRY ELLISON

I hope they can amend the constitution to let Bill Clinton run again... I'm very fond of Bill Clinto...
LARRY ELLISON

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as th...
LARRY ELLISON

Less than half are coming from Siebel.
LARRY ELLISON

Most people want to search private data much more often than they need to search public data.
LARRY ELLISON

No one has ever done this before. We think it will be a huge market and we think it will help drive ...
LARRY ELLISON

Greg has told us he's looking at a terrific professional opportunity. We wish him well.
LARRY ELLISON

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of t...
LARRY ELLISON

The code is pretty much overrated. It's more important to know such things as structure, features an...
LARRY ELLISON

I don't like Tom.
LARRY ELLISON

I slept fine over the weekend, so conclude what you like. We're going to have a great year.
LARRY ELLISON

It's a simple strategy. You take what you can't sell, you glue it into the operating system, and you...
LARRY ELLISON

I think that's going to be difficult to achieve,
LARRY ELLISON

Last quarter we got through it with record profitability record margins, ... In light of Sept. 11, i...
LARRY ELLISON

My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.
LARRY ELLISON

We think of Microsoft as our major competitor in the database business, not IBM,
LARRY ELLISON

We don't know, ... The fact is that the buying climate remains very tough. There aren't so many big ...
LARRY ELLISON

The real highlight of our most recent quarter was the 57 percent growth in our applications business...
LARRY ELLISON

Guys were knocked down time and time again, but kept getting up to do what had to be done to keep us...
LARRY ELLISON

a bag of viruses.
LARRY ELLISON

A new giant will be born,
LARRY ELLISON

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.
LARRY ELLISON

I don't think that's an unreasonable target, ... through a combination of acquisitions and organic g...
LARRY ELLISON

At one time we highlighted BEA for a possible acquisition, but less so now. We have passed them up.....
LARRY ELLISON

Despite what everyone says, our software is actually cheaper.
LARRY ELLISON

Every application we make works with the Mac today,
LARRY ELLISON

I can check the Oracle stock price with this, ... and then maybe decide to pick up some more stock w...
LARRY ELLISON

I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going t...
LARRY ELLISON

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
LARRY ELLISON

[An appropriate setup for some businesses might be to use midrange servers for the database and smal...
LARRY ELLISON

There is no more important platform for Oracle than HP and Itanium.
LARRY ELLISON

Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3,400,000 CRM users strengthen our number one position in ...
LARRY ELLISON

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
LARRY ELLISON

[The catalyst for this Net revolution will be Europe, because] Europe has a two-year lead over the U...
LARRY ELLISON

It is absolutely true that we set out to expose Microsoft's covert activities,
LARRY ELLISON

Those that believe this is merely a cyclical downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and, ...
LARRY ELLISON

People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change....
LARRY ELLISON

Arcade Planet is leveraging its expertise in the coin-operated amusement and video game industry to ...
LARRY ELLISON

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
RALPH ELLISON

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
RALPH ELLISON

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
RALPH ELLISON

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and...
RALPH ELLISON

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
RALPH ELLISON

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You migh...
RALPH ELLISON

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him...
RALPH ELLISON

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become...
RALPH ELLISON

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
RALPH ELLISON

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to ha...
RALPH ELLISON

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might e...
RALPH ELLISON

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...
RALPH ELLISON

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
RALPH ELLISON

A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead ...
KEITH ELLISON

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.
KEITH ELLISON

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, ...
JENNIFER ELLISON

K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a moral...
HARLAN ELLISON

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
HARLAN ELLISON

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...
HARLAN ELLISON

You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion a...
KEITH ELLISON

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
HARLAN ELLISON

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is en...
HARLAN ELLISON

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some thi...
RALPH ELLISON

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
RALPH ELLISON

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...
RALPH ELLISON

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become...
RALPH ELLISON

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
RALPH ELLISON

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of s...
RALPH ELLISON

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can ...
RALPH ELLISON

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might ...
RALPH ELLISON

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go
HARLAN ELLISON

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some pe...
HARLAN ELLISON

Education is all a matter of building bridges.
RALPH ELLISON

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.
JENNIFER ELLISON

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't ...
JENNIFER ELLISON

At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Right...
KEITH ELLISON

Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up t...
KEITH ELLISON

I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessa...
JENNIFER ELLISON

I think it's dangerous to prosecute people for their political views and their political associa...
KEITH ELLISON

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than l...
HARLAN ELLISON

I have a deep and personal aversion to anti-Semitism regardless of its source, and I reject and cond...
KEITH ELLISON

I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious.
JENNIFER ELLISON

I'll never forget working to get my college, Wayne State University, to divest from the governme...
KEITH ELLISON

Why can't we get real, sane, sensible gun legislation? Because the NRA, funded by Mossberg, Smit...
KEITH ELLISON

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and ...
JENNIFER ELLISON

We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets...
KEITH ELLISON

While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judai...
KEITH ELLISON

True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
HARLAN ELLISON

I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or do...
HARLAN ELLISON

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers g...
RALPH ELLISON

When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison.
RALPH ELLISON

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having a...
RALPH ELLISON

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, an...
RALPH ELLISON

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
HARLAN ELLISON

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionair...
KEITH ELLISON

Getting to the championship game with an undefeated record is great, especially with the way our sea...
BRYAN ELLISON

We must invest in and empower our state and local parties by creating effective field operations, an...
KEITH ELLISON

He won the two mile that year. That year he was the runner to beat in the state of Kansas. We were t...
A.J. ELLISON

There are changes in the brain (during pregnancy and early motherhood) ? concrete, measurable change...
KATHERINE ELLISON

Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party...
KEITH ELLISON

Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps ev...
MEGAN ELLISON

A lot of these long distance runners start out at junior high. They have just as good times but they...
A.J. ELLISON

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music a...
RALPH ELLISON

Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use ...
KEITH ELLISON

My junior year was a stepping stone to my senior season. That was my first full season running. I kn...
A.J. ELLISON

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
HARLAN ELLISON

[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or th...
HARLAN ELLISON

I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes ...
HARLAN ELLISON

I have no mouth, and I must scream.
HARLAN ELLISON

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, wh...
RALPH ELLISON

Education is all a matter of building bridges
RALPH ELLISON

In the fall, I still ran cross country. In the winter you had indoor, in the spring you have track a...
A.J. ELLISON

It's just like with any other sport, if you want to get to that next level, you have to sacrifice a ...
A.J. ELLISON

I had a little bit of anxiety. Being one of the top runners in Kansas and you get to Tulsa and every...
A.J. ELLISON

I am a little surprised. You have a lot of military kids coming in and out. It would be nice to see ...
A.J. ELLISON

As soon as they announced it, I knew I broke the record. My goal at the time was 'I'm going to win t...
A.J. ELLISON

Cross country was something that started off as a punishment from my father for low grades. I guess ...
A.J. ELLISON

I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.
KEITH ELLISON

I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader...
KEITH ELLISON

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself h...
RALPH ELLISON

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be...
JENNIFER ELLISON

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they...
HARLAN ELLISON

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and crea...
KEITH ELLISON

When belief in a god dies, the god dies
HARLAN ELLISON

People who can't get laid watch _Star Trek_ and eat Twinkies!
HARLAN ELLISON

This is believed to be the largest ever seizure of this drug in Australia,
CHRIS ELLISON

It's very important, this agreement that we have reached with Singapore, because it's such a signifi...
CHRIS ELLISON

Throughout my work as a state legislator and member of Congress since 2002, I have worked as hard as...
KEITH ELLISON

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
HARLAN ELLISON

Dammit, white folk are always giving orders, it's a habit with them. Why didn't you make an excuse? ...
RALPH ELLISON

There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homoge...
KEITH ELLISON

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.
KEITH ELLISON

We are as a nation very strongly committed to fighting war crimes and bringing those who are guilty ...
CHRIS ELLISON

These dogs, with their super-sensitive noses, remain the quickest and most accurate detection device...
CHRIS ELLISON

Certainly you can't do anything before charges have been laid, but I can assure you that if they fac...
CHRIS ELLISON

Attacking terrorist financing cuts off the lifeblood of terrorism,
CHRIS ELLISON

The Australian Government has great respect for the significance of these items as part of China's s...
CHRIS ELLISON

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.
RALPH ELLISON

There are still some people who want longhorn cattle out there, but we've been working with a core g...
CHUCK ELLISON

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit...
KEITH ELLISON

If you do panto, everyone says you are washed up - but I love all the booing and hissing.
JENNIFER ELLISON

Girls Aloud,
JENNIFER ELLISON

I recently went mad and spent - 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stu...
JENNIFER ELLISON

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.
JENNIFER ELLISON

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!
JENNIFER ELLISON

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.
JENNIFER ELLISON

These vessels will now be better equipped to deal with border incursions and other threats at sea,
CHRIS ELLISON

And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinio...
HARLAN ELLISON

We've had unfortunately a fire overnight, we believe it was deliberately lit. The welfare building, ...
CHRIS ELLISON

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.
KEITH ELLISON

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of co...
HARLAN ELLISON

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize id...
RALPH ELLISON

Then you can really do genetic engineering, ... I mean where you can actually design an organism or ...
MICHAEL ELLISON

Training hard was not just going to the track at 3:30 and running hard. It was going to bed at the r...
A.J. ELLISON

Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by...
HARLAN ELLISON

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look lik...
HARLAN ELLISON

He would have been aware that if caught so soon, he would be going to prison for much longer than la...
MARK ELLISON

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symb...
RALPH ELLISON

A mistake people make when having portraits created is doing it themselves or having a friend click ...
STEVE ELLISON

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a da...
HARLAN ELLISON

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, ...
RALPH ELLISON

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
RALPH ELLISON

Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes condi...
KATHERINE ELLISON

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid
HARLAN ELLISON

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid i...
HARLAN ELLISON

The first day of practice I couldn't run four miles on my own. I ran two miles and then I had to wal...
A.J. ELLISON

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
RALPH ELLISON

People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Rob...
KEITH ELLISON

I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movem...
KEITH ELLISON

Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.
KEITH ELLISON

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me a...
JENNIFER ELLISON

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