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Oracle founder shares secrets of success
February 13, 2009
If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows... This is not innovation. This is the end of innovation.
If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.
People tend to like what they're good at and not like very much what they're not good at.
A college degree is certainly useful, and I would recommend that everyone get one or more of those. But, you know, I left school without a degree, came to California. I never took a computer science class in my life. I got a job working as a programmer; I was largely self-taught. I just picked up a book and started programming.
We try not to lose sight of the fact that the things we are trying to do cannot be done by individuals. The projects are so ambitious that they can only be undertaken by groups. And we have to work at, again, coming up with a good result for the group, rather than perhaps the best results for every single individual.
Image: Ellison delivers the keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. | Photograph: Robert
Galbraith/Reuters
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