God Doesn't Think he's Larry Ellison
Jan. 31st, 2006 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamusedinatxAn article in this mornings San Francisco Chronicle nets this gem:
I'm not alone in believing that Ellison is the most ethic and morally bankrupt man in Silicon Valley. (One friend will argue that it is Scott McNealy of SUN, but I think that comes from a more personal grudge).
If you gave me ONE percent of Larry's NET worth and allowed me to invest it in a money market fund. I could live comfortably on the interest alone and never touch the principle. Alas, no one is convinced enough, least of all Larry Ellison, to take me up on that challenge :)
This morning was nice and sunny as I walked the dork doggie and got ready for work. Restless, I decided to walk down a bus stop to the MacArthur BART station to wait for my connecting bus. I'm glad I did. For the first time I saw one of our H2 - Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Zero-emission buses. I knew we had an experimental fleet but I hadn't seen one. This was on the #14 route. I'll have to look that route up and see if I can ride one.
Coretta Scott King has died. I'm saddened by this. I also feel vaguely old. Even though she is my parent's generation not mine, her presence as a figure larger than life in the United States especially on issues such as gender as well as racial equality leaves a hole. In my generation and the one between us, I feel there is a great lack in charismatic leadership especially on those issues. That gap in leadership leaves me with an even larger sense of bereavement.
And there has been a postal shooting like we haven't seen in 10 years :( And, sadly, its right in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stokemom's back yard! EEK. Nat, I hope you're all okay.
Nicola Miner, the daughter of Oracle co-founder Bob Miner, in the biography, "The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison," by Mike Wilson. (The famous subtitle to the book is: "God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison.")
I'm not alone in believing that Ellison is the most ethic and morally bankrupt man in Silicon Valley. (One friend will argue that it is Scott McNealy of SUN, but I think that comes from a more personal grudge).
If you gave me ONE percent of Larry's NET worth and allowed me to invest it in a money market fund. I could live comfortably on the interest alone and never touch the principle. Alas, no one is convinced enough, least of all Larry Ellison, to take me up on that challenge :)
This morning was nice and sunny as I walked the dork doggie and got ready for work. Restless, I decided to walk down a bus stop to the MacArthur BART station to wait for my connecting bus. I'm glad I did. For the first time I saw one of our H2 - Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Zero-emission buses. I knew we had an experimental fleet but I hadn't seen one. This was on the #14 route. I'll have to look that route up and see if I can ride one.
Coretta Scott King has died. I'm saddened by this. I also feel vaguely old. Even though she is my parent's generation not mine, her presence as a figure larger than life in the United States especially on issues such as gender as well as racial equality leaves a hole. In my generation and the one between us, I feel there is a great lack in charismatic leadership especially on those issues. That gap in leadership leaves me with an even larger sense of bereavement.
And there has been a postal shooting like we haven't seen in 10 years :( And, sadly, its right in
stokemom's back yard! EEK. Nat, I hope you're all okay.
