I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

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

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.

The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious.

Your value will be not what you know it will be what you share.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.

If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.

The social network will be the new production line in a company.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is culture is people's behaviors.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.