John Backus said during a 1979 interview with Think, the IBM employee magazine, " Much of my work has come from being lazy.

IBM lead negotiator Jack Sams insisted that he never met Gary, and one IBM colleague has confirmed that Sams said so at the time.

In February 2012 IBM scientists said that they have made several breakthroughs in quantum computing that put them " on the cusp of building systems that will take computing to a whole new level.

His role model is Tom Watson, then IBM chairman, who said in 1958: ' I think there is a world market for about five computers.

The IBM Archives Frequently Asked Questions asks if he said in the 1950s that he foresaw a market potential for only five electronic computers.

In 2008 an IBM publication said: < i > with the popularity and growth of

At the time, Sequent's CEO said its technology would " find its way through IBM's entire product field " and IBM announced it would " both sell Sequent machines, and fold Sequent's technology ... into its own servers ", but by May 2002 a decline in sales of the models acquired from Sequent, among other reasons, led to the retirement of Sequent-heritage products.

However, the key combination was revealed to the public when developers found it useful, and at the 20th anniversary of the IBM PC, while on a panel with Bill Gates, Bradley said " I may have invented it ( control-alt-delete ), but I think Bill made it famous ".

Purportedly, Titor had been sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer which he said was needed to " debug " various legacy computer programs in 2036 ; a reference to the UNIX 2038 problem.

An IBM spokesman, Mac Jeffery, said that the company does license some of his patents, but not for the floppy disk, which they invented on their own.

A spokesman for IBM, the largest private employer in the state, and the state's largest consumer of electricity, said " we have to be smarter than this ".

Citing the easy use of his new system, Jeff Grube, vice president of Punxsutawney Electric Repair ( who received the first IBM 5110 on February 2, 1978 ), said: " If you can type and use a hand-held calculator, you have all the skills necessary to operate a 5110.

Back in New York, Anka re-wrote the original French song for Sinatra, subtly altering the melodic structure and changing the lyrics: " At one o ' clock in the morning, I sat down at an old IBM electric typewriter and said, ' If Frank were writing this, what would he say?

After this project was unsuccessful, he was said to have fallen out of grace with IBM and was reassigned to headquarters staff-a position that IBM employees often considered a form of penalty.

The first evident IBM PC demo group to create text mode demos is said to be the Sorcerers.

It is said to be the first truly relational DBMS since IBM Business System 12.

Morris goes to his job, and meets Benson's boss who said that Benson feared the University Hospital because of its ultra-modern computer system, an upgraded IBM System / 360

Dr Frank Soltis, an IBM chief scientist, said IBM had solved power leakage problems associated with high frequency by using a combination of 90 nm and 65 nm parts in the POWER6 design.

One IBM executive in attendance said it was the first IBM event that had given him goose-bumps.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.

`` You're Gavin's son '', Joe Purvis had said.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

Six hundred and forty acres, the old man back in St. Louis had said ; ;

I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.

`` It's Curtiss '', he said, naming the man Rankin had hit.

Even as he said it, Greg knew they had found the enemy.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.

Mary Jane had smilingly said.

There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.

The pretty little twittering WACS said he had the look of eagles -- and Penny, hating the cliche, had to admit that in this case it applied.

`` Hi there, Schaffner '', he had said.

Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.

Aloud he had said, making conversation:

`` Yes '', Herr Schaffner had said.

`` Thank you '', the German had said courteously.

His superiors had said that all marines were depraved.

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.