[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.


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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
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
I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right pl...
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
I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, ...
JENNIFER ELLISON
You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion a...
KEITH 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
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
RALPH ELLISON
They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisti...
LARRY 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
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
I have a deep and personal aversion to anti-Semitism regardless of its source, and I reject and cond...
KEITH ELLISON
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very ...
LARRY ELLISON