Larry Ellison Quotes


If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.


Citations

Symonds, Matthew. Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle. Simon & Schuster, 2003.

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A startlingly bad prediction by a Nobel-prize winning economist particularly given it was stated in 1998 rather than a much earlier date when the potential of the Internet wasn’t already apparent. Ironically, the quote is from a Red Herring article he wrote titled “Why Most Economists’ Predictions Are Wrong” in which he asserts that most economists predictions are wrong because they overestimate the impact of future technologies. See related quotes for additional equally erroneous Krugman predictions.


Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison
  • Born: August 17, 1944
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Businessman

Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American business magnate, investor who is a co-founder, the executive chairman and chief technology officer (CTO) of Oracle Corporation. As of April 2021, he was listed by Bloomberg Billionaires Index as the ninth-wealthiest person in the United States and as the tenth-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $93.9 billion, increased from $57.3 billion in 2018. He is also the owner of the 41st largest island in the United States, Lanai in the Hawaiian Islands with a population of just over 3000.