Ellison believes that the Information Superhighway is the road to passing Bill Gates. He sees a worldwide network of information and entertainment services and he wants Oracle to supply the software. Microsoft is the past. All of this may be put into perspective by a conversation Larry Ellison had with his sister two decades ago. One day she asked him which was more important, to be loved or to be respected.
Ambition is a false god.
A well-known doctor wrote about an enormously successful agricultural engineer. There was no suggestion that the husbandman was not a good family man and a good neighbor. He was not lazy. He planned a building project which would give lucrative employment to architects, contractors, and laborers. The construction would be a good thing for the community, and while profiting the agronomist, would at the same time help business conditions.