Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

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.

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

We must face all our fears and conquer each one of them.

Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me.

People didn’t love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what’s best for it. You don’t destroy it.

As the wine matures in the wine bottle so doth the minds of men and woman through experience

And now I can’t breathe for wanting you. I woke up, and your eyes were on fire. You haven’t looked at me like that in years. All need. All want.

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first.