Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that. Lester Bangs acidacousticearly Change image and share on social
Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody. Rory Bremner committeedepartmentduplication share on social
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. Karlheinz Stockhausen composecompressextent share on social
Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws. Kevin Mitnick competitorcoverdatum Change image and share on social
Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones. Safra A. Catz apronbankercase share on social
Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet. Safra A. Catz absolutebuildcustomer share on social
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020. Larry Ellison applicationcloudenterprise Change image and share on social
Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications. Larry Ellison 12capplicationcloud share on social
Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three. Robert Rauschenberg agocloseguess Change image and share on social
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to. Niall Ferguson completehistoryintend Change image and share on social