Larry Ellison Quotes
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.
Ellison, Larry. Keynote Address. Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Corporation, 20 Sept. 2010, San Francisco, CA.
Misquoted. In a March 9, 1999 interview on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked the candidate Gore to describe what distinguished him from his Democratic challenger, New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley. In part, he said: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” It was clumsy wording which was subsequently construed as Gore claiming to have invented the Internet, initially popularized by Declan McCullagh, a libertarian writer, in a post to Wired.
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.
