Before I LIKED to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three YEARS OLD, and she had an IBM ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER.

Cory Booker grew up rich in an all-WHITE SUBURB. He's BASICALLY a white GUY. His PARENTS were very wealthy executives at IBM.

What has always made IBM a FASCINATING and compelling place for me is the passion of the COMPANY, and its people, to apply technology and scientific THINKING to major societal ISSUES.

I've got a distribution system that goes to 170 countries. If I acquire PROPERLY, you KNOW, you may be successful in one or TWO countries, or one PLACE; I can scale, and that's part of the value that IBM BRINGS.

I think, given who the IBM TARGET company is, I FEEL our PURPOSE is to be essential to our clients.

IBM EXISTED a good 50 YEARS before mainframes - we STARTED with scales.

My first ALBUM, 'Englaborn,' was BASED on MUSIC originally written for the theatre. My solo ALBUMS, like 'IBM 1401, a User's Manual' and 'Fordlandia,' have ALSO had narratives attached to them.

Many companies don't EXIST after 25 YEARS. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a TOTALLY changing PERSONALITY.

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ONES lose MONEY indefinitely WITHOUT someone FINALLY waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

I WANT to TAKE IBM BACK to its ROOTS.

When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect US to bring the best of IBM WORLDWIDE to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.

KPMG's use of IBM Watson technology will help advance our team's ability to analyze and act on the CORE financial and operational DATA so CENTRAL to the health of ORGANIZATIONS and the capital MARKETS.

In all the YEARS with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found INTERESTING and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial COOPERATION, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and CRITICAL phenomena.