If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

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.

The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God’s name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.

I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.

I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.