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Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid. -- Larry Ellison
I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark. -- William Shakespeare
SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos. -- Bill Vaughan
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020. -- Larry Ellison
Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil. -- Brandi L. Bates
Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three. -- Robert Rauschenberg
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. -- Bill Gates
What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people. -- Larry Ellison
We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise. -- Leila Janah
The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I know nothing. -- Socrates
Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws. -- Kevin Mitnick
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle. -- James Gosling
Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver. -- Safra A. Catz
We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet. -- Larry Ellison
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided. -- Ted Nelson
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format. -- Larry Ellison
Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications. -- Larry Ellison
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.' -- Larry Ellison
I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos. -- Alfred Lin
I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft. -- Larry Ellison
We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java. -- Larry Ellison
Grant Dalton, constantly, whenever he gets asked something in the media about Oracle, he makes the statement that we have got unlimited resources, and we can do anything we like. It is just complete crap. -- James Spithill
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. -- Megan Smith
The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed. "See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them. -- Ilona Andrews
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers. -- C.P. Cavafy
She'll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?'Todd did, but he let the comment slide by. -- Francine Pascal
She'll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?'Todd did, but he let the comment slide by." -- Francine Pascal
I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there. -- Larry Ellison
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language. -- Larry Ellison
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network. -- Marc Andreessen
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. -- Luis Barragan
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad. -- Margaret Carlson
One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. -- Lord Salisbury
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. -- Paul Valery
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. -- Richard Cobden
I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right. -- Carl Honore
It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know). -- James Gleick
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers. -- Larry Ellison
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. -- Elon Musk
In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life. -- Jack Canfield
I'm a librarian, not an oracle. -- Libba Bray
Man's conscience is the oracle of God. -- Lord Byron
No infallible oracle out of the breast. -- Frederic Henry Hedge
Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men. -- John Milton
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations. -- John Twelve Hawks
Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God. -- Thomas Jefferson
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. -- Paul Valery
Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post -- Martin Tyler
Every man is a hero or oracle to someone. And that person has enhanced value. -- Johnny Hunt
The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign -- Heraclitus
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution. -- Rufus Choate
Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. -- Robert S. de Ropp
Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred. -- Alexander Hamilton
One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. -- Lord Salisbury
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. -- Plutarch
I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first. -- Henry David Thoreau
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision -- Thomas Jefferson
Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs. -- Annie Dillard
The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect. -- Plato
Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven... -- Thomas Jefferson
Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God. -- Lord Byron
I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian]. -- Pope Gregory I
Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser. -- Sylvia Plath

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