#oracle

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#daytime #good #i #i think #joseph

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#cloud #enterprise #got #live #nothin

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#bill gates #crew #database #decided #ellison

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. ↗

— Jane Porter

#authors #chief #country #dr #glory

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#closer #even #guess #had #half

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

#capital #discovery #folly #inborn #metaphor

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#know #means #never #oracle #spoken

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations. ↗

— John Twelve Hawks

#oracles #physics #science #science

But fierce as my attraction was, I also knew that it was more than just a physical attraction [...], more than just a momentenry surge of animal desire. I understood that she wasn't a terribly articulate person and nothing she said that afternoon was particularly brilliant or memorable. And yet there I was in a state of maximum torment - burning and longing and pining, a man trapped in the spines of love. ↗

— Paul Auster

#love

He looked at Chloe "Come over to the table. Sit with your aunt. I will clear away the mess and....I will achieve pancakes." Grace's lovely, tired face wobbled with looked suspiciously like mirth, but she had been under so much stress he decided his first impression could not be correct. "You'll achieve pancakes?" "I do not see why not" he said "Have you ever achieved them before?" she said "That question is irrelevant," he told her, while his eyes narrowed in suspicion on her tired face. On a Djinn, her expression would definitely be laughter. "I will achieve pancakes now. ↗

— Thea Harrison

#love