Larry Ellison

1944– · American internet entrepreneur and businessman (born 1944)

Topics: open source, databases, security, web development

• So remember this graduates: when people start saying you're crazy, you just might be on to the most important innovation of your life.

  — Larry Ellison

• If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it.

  — Larry Ellison

• Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the Central Intelligence Agency, would get very upset [if] somebody looks in their database.

  — Larry Ellison

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

  — Larry Ellison