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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.

IBM doesn't want its people to get frustrated and restless because it has them reaching for carrots they can't quit

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage.

I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.

If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.

IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.

A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP.