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.

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.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

Skylar, you have to understand... All the things I did... I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And... I was... really... I was alive.

Vision, not need, is what attracts money.

To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool.

Whats special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

I just write from how I feel. As an outlet.

I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.