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IBM has a very solid business image.
I want to take IBM back to its roots.
IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.
I grew up in the IBM school of management.
Facebook is a powerful company, yes, but so was IBM.
When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.
Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage.
People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
I spent 15 years at IBM, then five years at Freescale Semiconductor.
At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.
Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.
IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales.
India... what a big part you play in this story for IBM and for the world.
In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.
Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.
IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
I've been a paperboy, a short-order cook, a warehouse clerk, and, eventually, a partner at IBM.
I grew up in Dallas, and my dad works for IBM, so I grew up in the environment of Silicon Prairie.
I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.
People knew about IBM before they knew about Apple. Sometimes it takes a little longer for better to win.
My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.
I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.
Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
Cory Booker grew up rich in an all-white suburb. He's basically a white guy. His parents were very wealthy executives at IBM.
My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.
Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.
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.
Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a totally changing personality.
Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.
The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to PCs.
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home.
We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.