IBM

Speech parts

1. IBM - Noun

2. IBM - Proper noun

Meaning

Initialism of International Business Machines.

Initialism of International Brotherhood of Magicians.

(geology) Initialism of Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc.

(weaponry) Initialism of intercontinental ballistic missile.
Alternative form: ICBM

(pathology) Initialism of inclusion body myositis.

(figuratively) A company that dominates its field.

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Examples

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. Bill Gates

IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology. C. Wright Mills

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. Steve Jobs

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years. Steve Jobs

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs. John Backus

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it. Larry Wall

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