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" Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware. "

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" If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business. "

" Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer. "

" 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 believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view. "

" India will not be at the center - it will be the center of this fourth technology shift. "

" You can engineer change. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming. "

" When I think of revenue growth, I think of the words 'mix' and 'shift.' "

" Work on something that matters. Have courage. "

" If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market. "

" I think health care is absolutely ripe. It's an $8 trillion industry, lots of inefficiency in it. "

" Never love something so much that you can't let go of it. "

" One of the most important topics I think for us all to work on is job creation. "

" You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they'll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor. "

" This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that. "

" I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that. "

" And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not. "

" I have a great job at a great company. "

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

" When you're on a scale like we are in 170 countries and hundreds of thousands of people, you have a single point of view. "

" Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember. "

" 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. "

" We share no data with the government anywhere in the world. "

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

" And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. 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. "

" 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. "