“Computer engineers of today are likely to find that if they have a two-week holiday they may miss a crucial new development in computing. Similarly, those wishing to keep abreast of mechanical engineering in the late nineteenth century had little… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Most organisations, when they would dream of the exaltations of the present, roll their eyes backward. The International Business Machines Corporation has beheld no… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Hollerith regarded engineers as backroom boys who worked best when they were left alone. Watson, on the other hand, was quick to chase engineers… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“The aristocracy and the ordinary people were like different species. A commoner might rarely be elevated to nobility by acquiring great wealth or political… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions in business are taken as much for emotional reasons as for logical ones, perhaps even more so. The tabulators inspired a level… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Watson demanded total loyalty to the corporation from everybody it employed. ‘Joining a company,’ he would tell his staff, ‘is an act that calls… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Lady Byron noted with obvious approval that her daughter was more impressed with meeting scientists on Wednesday, June 5, 1833, rather than royalty. In… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Hollerith was at heart an academic inventor whose commercial success, though not his technological achievement, had in a sense been something of an accident.… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“The clash of Watson’s and Hollerith’s personalities was a classical example of a brash, energetic, visionary newcomer confronting a staid traditionalist.” — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Hollerith learned a lesson that all vendors of data processing devices and computers have learned at some point: that the biggest market for information… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“IBM had its origins in Jacquard’s endeavours in Revolutionary France. And indeed IBM is, indeed, a direct descendant of the work that went on… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“One of Watson’s many passionately held beliefs was that too many people failed to fulfil their potential because they didn’t make enough effort to… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“His other deals had tended to bring together companies from the same industry horizontally, or merge customers with their suppliers vertically, or bring together… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
