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A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can…

— Tom Peters

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. Thomas J. Watson, Former Chairman and CEO of IBM”

— Dan Siroker

“Big Thinkers like IBM’s Watson are programmed and named to sound like men.”

— Jaclyn Friedman

“I realized much later in life that the reason this decision between MIT and IBM was so agonizing was because it wasn't really about…

— Mike Massimino

“Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In”

— Gerald M. Weinberg

“Since its founding in 1911 up until 1993, IBM had never laid off a single employee. Akers needed to, but somehow couldn’t bring himself…

— Robert Cringely

“Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic—a totally streamlined organization in…

— Thomas J. Watson

Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's…

— Darl McBride

“You know, I never did call him Watson – he was John, simply John.”

— Mitch Cullin

“Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee - you are a business with one employee, you. Andy…

— Andy Grove

“Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Kildall, the innovator, followed his passion for technical excellence and was shocked that IBM wouldn’t follow him. Gates, the imitator, took his cues from…

— Lewis Schiff