Ibm Quotes

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Mistake, Dark, Winning

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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• 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.

  Larry Wall

  Philosophy, Thinking, Way

  ChangeLog.net Interview, lwn.net. January 17, 2001.

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• We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.

  John W. Thompson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Space

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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

  Smokey Robinson

  Teenager, School, Doctors

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• 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.

  Wietse Venema

  Six Months, Want, Might

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• 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.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Change, Business, Block

  Thomas J. Watson (1963). “A business and its beliefs: the ideas that helped build IBM.”

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• It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Innovation, Microsoft

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

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

  Bill Gates

  Technology, People

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

  Steve Jobs

  Innovation, Gains, Happenings

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.

  Al Ries

  Hands, Mind, Upper Hand

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• It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

  Bill Gates

  Growing Up, Focus, Ems

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

  Lou Gerstner

  Believe, Size, Used

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

  Bill Gates

  Orbit, Microsoft, Rockets

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• It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.

  Garry Kasparov

  Team, Intelligent, Blue

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Names, Choices

  "What Warren thinks". Interview with Nicholas Varchaver, archive.fortune.com. April 14, 2008.

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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.

  Jack Lynch

  Communication, Style, Pepsi

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• 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.

  Lou Gerstner

  Cynical, Promise, Vision

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• The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

  Lou Gerstner

  Vision, Needs, Lasts

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• IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

  Ginni Rometty

  Passion, Thinking, Technology

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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Learning, Lines, Way

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

  Bill Gates

  Interesting, Generations, Done

  BusinessWeek, November 26, 1984.

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• IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.

  C. Wright Mills

  Reality, Sociology, Plus

  "Power, Politics, and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills". Book edited by Irving Louis Horowitz, 1963.

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• 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.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Leader, Doe

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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

  Lou Gerstner

  Games, Culture, Aspect

  "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?". Book by Lou Gerstner, 2002.

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