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.
It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines.
I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle of innovation/commoditization.
Everyone talks about how much data's in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store it. But if it's a movie, a poem, a song, it doesn't know what it's actually saying or doing.
I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.
Steward for the long term. It's not always easy, but you do it.
