Actors wear eye makeup in theatre, so their eyes are visible from the back row. “It’s not enough to win—all others must fail.” seems to be a similar overthetop

Actors wear eye makeup in theatre, so their eyes are visible from the back row. “It’s not enough to win—all others must fail.” seems to be a similar overthetop way to commumicate a message company-wide. Similar might work for communicating to potential customers... When Pracle was a startup, they beat IBM to market with a database that used IBM's idea (Codd's relational algebra), and IBM's query language (SQL)... which is one of the few (only?) technologies still dominating almost 4 decades later. Typically, in software, 10 years is pretty good. So, I think he had excellent foresight into how important SQL could be. All that said, I was horrified when Oracle bought sun (amd java). I personally prefer their hippy-like approach of free open standards... but I have to acknowledge the merits that Ellison did have.