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" I never look at an acquisition really by size. "

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" 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. "

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" Work on something that matters. Have courage. "