"It is a good excuse,"

"I think he had quite bad losses, for example, in the Davis Cup against us...He was supposed to be in the Top 10. I think it's a little bit a pity because he's quite talented guy. But he can be there, but he needs to be more brave, that's for sure."

"I was missing a little bit of energy. I got sick two, three days ago, and I'm still little bit weak, so it's difficult to run around and try to make winners all over the court, especially on clay. So I had to work a little bit harder, and unfortunately, I'm not really ready for this."

"it's more actually [that] I need to hold it. I need to hold these feelings and I need to hold it for a long time, as long as I can. Because now it looks like I found my game, I found the confidence that I was missing for past six months. I'll try not to lose it again."

"We were both fighting against each other and fighting against ourselves, ... Neither us of wanted to lose, and I think that given the [windy] conditions, we played good tennis."

"You need to believe in yourself and I didn't."

"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."

"Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive."

"The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness."

"Human improvement is from within outward."

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

"The essence of greatness is neglect of the self."

"To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible."

"Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them."

"The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue."

"Instruction does not prevent waster of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all."

"Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side."

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve."

"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."

"In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty."

"The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith."

"The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society."