Quotes About Ibm Computers

#1. If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

James Surowiecki

#2. If Jobs and Wozniak had believed that IBM was the be-all and end-all, there would have been no personal computers.

Jimmy Maher

#3. It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

Paul Di Filippo

#4. My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.

Jimmy Fallon

#5. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone ... or at least, he would be gone from it.

Anonymous

#6. The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

Edward Sapir

#7. I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

Scott Michael Foster

#8. You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.

Geoffrey Hinton

#9. I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

Anne Robinson

#10. Never unlock your heart to someone who has to bend the key to make it fit.

Toni Sorenson

#11. First, he though, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

Michael Ondaatje

#12. Doesn't matter how good your bullets are if you don't aim carefully.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. We give great value for our franchisees: They can build a store for well under $200,000. And we have extremely simple operating systems. The preparation is mostly done in front of the customer. That simplicity is really what attracts our Subway franchise. You see it, and you can do it.

Fred DeLuca

#14. And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Michio Kaku

#15. My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.

Gary Reilly