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" Don't protect your past. Don't protect your products. "

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" 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. "

" The social network will be the new production line. "

" If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities. "

" I often sit back and say, 'Be sure about what I believe.' "

" 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. "

" I make time to exercise. It's not being indulgent. I think it's got a lot to do with your ability to manage properly and stay focused. There's no doubt about that. "

" You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion. "

" If we would change the basis and align what is taught in school with what is needed with business... that's where I came up with this idea of 'new collar.' Not blue collar or white collar. "

" Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws together all this information and forms hypotheses, millions of them, and then tests them with all the data it can find. It learns over time what data is reliable, and that's part of its learning process. "

" I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do. "

" When you manage your company for long-term shareholders, and you manage the company for clients, two of the biggest stakeholders, you will make the right decisions. "

" It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines. "

" If I have learned nothing else in all my years here, my biggest lesson is you have to constantly reinvent this company. That's how you get to be 103 years old. "

" I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients. "

" One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science. "

" Don't let others define you. You define yourself. "

" I've always looked for challenges, and I have found plenty. "

" The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive. "

" The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company. "

" My mom had not worked a day in her life, and then she woke up when I was 15 and found herself with four children, no job, no money. But she set out and made it all OK for us, and from that, I saw that there's no problem that can't be solved. "

" So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them. "

" No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices. "

" India... what a big part you play in this story for IBM and for the world. "

" Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and different analytical engines - they're like little Lego bricks. You can put intelligence in any product or any process you have. "

" We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM'ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale. "

" I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk. "

" With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you. "

" Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence. "