Larry Ellison

my wife said this was a single stupidest
idea she had ever heard in her entire
life she kicked me out and then she
divorced me growing up in a lower
middle-class community on the south side
of Chicago virtually everyone important
in my life my family my teachers my
girlfriend wanted me to be a doctor over
time their dreams became my dreams they
convinced me I should be a doctor but as
hard as I tried I couldn't do it I was
unable to make myself into the person
that I thought I should be so I decided
to stop trying I was 21 years old when I
dropped out of college
during my California Springs and summers
I spent most of my days in the High
Sierras in Yosemite Valley working as a
river guide and a rock climbing
instructor I loved at those jobs but
unfortunately they didn't pay that well
so I also got a job working a couple of
days a week as a computer programmer
back in Berkeley I had learned a program
in college I didn't love programming but
it was fun and I was good at it I
started taking classes at UC Berkeley
I took several classes but the only one
I can remember was a sailing class
taught at Berkeley marina when my class
was over I wanted to buy a sailboat
my wife said this was a single stupidest
idea she had ever heard in her entire
life she accused me of being
irresponsible and she told me I lacked
ambition she kicked me out and then she
divorced me this is a pivotal moment in
my life my family was still mad at me
for not going to medical school and now
my wife was divorcing me because I
lacked ambition it looked like a
reoccurrence of the same old problem
once again I was unable to live up to
the expectations of others but this time
I was not disappointed in myself for
failing to be the person they thought I
should be their dreams and my dreams
were different I would never confuse the
two of them again throughout my 20s I
continued experimenting trying different
things racing bikes and boats and
constantly changing jobs I searched and
I searched but I just could not find a
software engineering job thought that I
loved as much as I loved sailing so I
tried to create one
my goal was to create the perfect job
for me a job I truly loved I never
expected the company to grow beyond 50
people so maybe I really did lack
ambition or vision back then
today Oracle employs around 150,000
people but when I started it was not my
intention to build a big company we
assembled an all-star team of gifted
programmers who were among the best in
the world at what they did that team
plus one crazy idea
gave birth to a giant company I call it
a crazy idea because of the time
everyone told me it was a crazy idea the
idea was to build the world's first
relational database but back then the
collective wisdom of computer experts
was that while relational databases
could be built they would never be fast
enough to be useful I thought
all those so-called computer experts
were wrong and when you start telling
people but all the experts are wrong
at first they call you arrogant and then
they say you're crazy so remember this
graduates when people start telling you
that you're crazy you just might be on
to the most important innovation in your
life
Oracle doubled in size year after year
after year for 10 years that was growing
so fast that it was impossible for
anyone to control it was like sailing in
a hurricane and then we went public oh
my god maybe I should have been a doctor

Resident Evil code veronica novel

PROLOGUE FACED WITH HIS IMMEDIATE DEATH, SURrounded by the diseased and dying as pieces of flaming helicopter rained down from the skies, all Rodrigo Juan Raval could think about was the girl. That, and getting the hell out of the way. She'll die too - move! He dove for cover behind an unmarked tombstone as the small cemetery rumbled and shook. With a shattering metal sound of high impact, a massive chunk of smoking 'copter crashed into the far corner of the yard, spraying the nearest rotting prisoners and soldiers with burning fuel.

RESIDENT EVIL2 NOVEL

PROLOGUE Raccoon Times, August 26,1998 MAYOR ANNOUNCES ‘KEEP CITY SAFE’ PLAN RACCOON CITY—On the front steps of City Hall, Mayor Harris announced in a press conference yesterday afternoon that the City Council will be hiring at least ten new police officers to join the Raccoon police, in response to the continued suspension of the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.), in effect since the brutal murders that plagued Raccoon earlier this summer.

SILNET HILL 2 NOVEL

Prologue -Girl-
“It looks kinda like milk.”

Laura's face stretched into a smile. She began to laugh as her bright, enamel-white teeth peeked from behind her small lips. The town was shrouded in a thick fog that blurred everything into white, as if she were in some sort of magical land. Sometimes Laura liked to think that some scatterbrained god had carelessly dropped his cup and spilled his morning milk all over the place. The mysterious atmosphere could be a sign that there were fairies or something hiding out there. The thought made Laura's heart tremble with excitement. Although usually precocious, the eight-year-old girl jokingly began to hop and skip along, her skirt fluttering behind her. Slowly and smoothly, the fog flowed and drifted through the air.

resident Evil 1 novel

PROLOGUE Latham Weekly, June 2, 1998 BIZARRE MURDERS COMMITTED IN RACCOON CITY -The mutilated body of forty-two-year-old Anna Mitaki was discovered late yesterday in an abandoned lot not far from her home in northwest Raccoon City, making her the fourth victim of the supposed "cannibal killers" to be found in or near the Victory Lake district in the last month. Consistent with the coroner reports of the other recent victims, Mitaki's corpse showed evidence of having been partially eaten, the bite patterns apparently formed by human jaws. Shortly after the discovery of Miss Mitaki by two joggers at approximately nine o'clock last night, Chief Irons made a brief statement insisting that the RPD is "working diligently to apprehend the perpetrators of such heinous crimes" and that he is currently consulting with city officials about more drastic protection measures for Raccoon citizens.