Looking for a man Quote by James Gleick

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

— Roy Romer

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

— Bill Gates

There's a lot of research now showing that noise, and the lack of quiet working space, is one of the biggest issues for all…

— Julian Treasure

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

— Raymond Loewy

“Somewhere in the existing software there was a bug, a potentially lethal flaw. Nothing less than the unselfing of the self would do. If…

— Salman Rushdie

“He hated computers having names like ZX75 and numbers of megabytes. He hated technology as it was in the 1990s.”

— Leander Kahney

“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303”

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Gerald M. Weinberg

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea:…

— Edward Abbey

“You see,” he said, “this little gadget is only a simple-minded cousin of Karl’s—and look what it’s done already. All these machines are beginning…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“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

“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