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

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" When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure. "

" 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. "

" I was always surrounded by people that wanted to mentor you. "

" Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa. "

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

" When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen. "

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

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

" You can engineer change. "

" We should prepare our future workforce differently. It isn't just advanced STEM degrees. There are many jobs you can do without advanced degrees. "

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

" The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients. "

" I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle of innovation/commoditization. "

" 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. "

" If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs. "

" 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. "

" To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors. "

" Be first and be lonely. "

" Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value. "

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

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

" I am very practical. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "