Larry Ellison (pretending to be) on drugs
I tried again. What about the centralized storage of health information, as Oracle was proposing to do with the Leaders system. Would Ellison want government officials to have access to personally identifiable genetic information?
"I feel like Alice has fallen through the looking glass," Ellison said. His voice rose; he was starting to get a little testy. "Does this other database bother you here? We can't touch that database because I won't be able to use my credit card. Like, I won't be able to go to the mall!" He took on the voice of Sean Penn's stoner from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." "Like, that's really disturbing. Like, don't mess with my mall experience. O.K., so people have to die over here without this, but that's not going to affect my experience going to the mall." He exhaled, and in his regular billionaire voice asked, "I mean, what the hell is going on?"
(Jeffrey Rosen, "Silicon Valley's Spy Game")
