"I don't think that's an unreasonable target, ... through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth."

"PeopleSoft is doing everything it can to prevent its shareholders from voting, ... If PeopleSoft's Board is so convinced that the J.D. Edwards acquisition is a great deal, why won't it let their shareholders vote on it?"

"We have no large acquisitions in mind right now."

"The Association for Competitive Technology didn't exist until the Microsoft antitrust trial began, ... It purports to be an independent group that is supporting America, but it was bought and paid for by two Americans -- Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer [Microsoft's CEO]."

"I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,"

"We are clearly not No. 1 in middleware. You will see us do a number of things in that space, including acquisitions."

"It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, ""Oh yeah, this stuff is good."

"Based on our current pipelines the entire management team believes that the overall year should be very strong, ... Specifically we expect that Oracle's software sales will grow faster this year than last. And margins should continue to improve as well."

"Apple needs to worry about doing something different. It's back to innovation and creativity."

"They are the only ones who destroyed the most innovative company in Silicon Valley in the past decade -- Netscape Communications, ... They paid people not to ship Netscape's browser. They're special."

"We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company,"

"What Microsoft is doing is patently illegal. Think about it. If you want to build computers, you've got to ask Bill's permission, ... If Bill wanted to triple the price on Windows, what would you do? You'd pay; you wouldn't have any choice."

"I hope they can amend the constitution to let Bill Clinton run again... I'm very fond of Bill Clinton personally... the world's going to miss him. He's gifted, bright, charming and charismatic."

"Its all wrong, ... Lots of little computers are a terrible idea, you can't see the big picture because it's been you know, sliced and diced and it's stored in so many different locations. We've fragmented this information. It's impossible to know what's going on."

"All the information about you as a patient would be in one spot, ... The idea here is to stop collecting paper."

"Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the (U.S.) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), would get very upset (if) somebody looks in their database,"

"What they're doing is not the least bit subtle. The result of all the innovation will be bankruptcy for Netscape,"

"If we had made less than 12 cents in operating income, we would have had to warn. We didn't warn."

"Siebel is the categorical leader [in CRM] and understands it better than anyone else on the planet, ... This action makes building Fusion products easier not harder."

"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others."

"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence."

"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."

"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."

"Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses."

"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts."

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."

"It also strengthens our No. 1 positions in the application business in North America. And it moves us closer to our goal of being No. 1 in applications globally."

"I've never experienced anything remotely like this. It's been a very emotional experience to get here. This is not what this is supposed to be about. A lot of us are upset."