Palmisano Quotes & Sayings

Tech never comes back the same. — Samuel J. Palmisano

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries. — Samuel J. Palmisano

IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible. — Samuel J. Palmisano

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software. — Samuel J. Palmisano

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk. — Kimberly Caldwell

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship. — Samuel J. Palmisano

If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit. — Samuel J. Palmisano

They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child. — Richard Paul Evans

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college. — Jane Lynch

Smarter is always the answer. — Samuel J. Palmisano

Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business. — Samuel J. Palmisano

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers. — David Nicholls