Ginni Rometty

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware. ”

The social network will be the new production line. ”

If we would change the basis and align what is taught in school with what is needed with business... that's where I came up with this idea of 'new collar.' Not blue collar or white collar. ”

You can engineer change. ”

So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them. ”

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion. ”

Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad. ”

Digital, it is not the destination. ”

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, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle of innovation/commoditization. ”