I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians.

Technology has limitations on what it can accomplish. You do not.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.