It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

That's my job - to make sure everything is great.

Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.