"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."
"Listening to the Donald Hooton story about how his son died because of steroids really, really got to me. And I remember that very lonely night, getting on a plane ââ¬Â¦ the more I thought of that story, I cried. And I made up my mind that night that this sport wasn't going to rest until it had taken what I felt and what all of us felt was the appropriate action."