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The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.

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.

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

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.

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.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.