Larry Ellison Quotes

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

There are very few industries that I know of - I mean, there are companies in fashion, in cosmetics. They're developing AI models and training them in the cloud in the beginning. If they're successful, they build their own datacenters and develop the software in their own datacenter, like Uber does.

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft's Developer Conference, Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference, Oracle World, Le Web, and more.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.

I think a lot of the time there isn't such a black-and-white difference between what's a platform and what's an app. It's really just like the most important apps become platforms.

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

... one of the things that will distinguish businesses into this next decade is ... how they use information.... I think it'll change culture, it'll change everything that you do. And I believe it'll differentiate the winners and the losers.

A key feature of the digital age is that technology changes incessantly to sate user demands

IT for a long time has been about how do you make old processes more efficient. But with all of the progress in digital technology, there is a kind of digital transformation that is occurring. And you see it with the explosion in the number of devices; you see it in the explosion in the number of applications.

All of these technologies that we are putting together... our memory technology, our CPU, our graphics architecture, our GPUs - all that is being applied to where the data is. You can almost predict where Intel will be in the future. It will be where data resides.

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future.

Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It's not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.

Microsoft loves Linux.

We are looking for a technology partner, as India is way behind the world as far as tech goes.

The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution.

At Imgur, we need a solid product that works on various platforms, so we're looking at iOS, Android, front end, back end, and devops.