Quotes by John Patrick

Autonomic computing will enable all those computers to become self-managing and self-healing. The combined result will be that companies will be able to e-source much of their computing to a Grid computing environment or build a Grid computing environment of their own.

Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users.

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

Our goal is to be the industry leader in UNIX systems and solutions and in the process better serve customers and offer them choices in the market.

The chief limiting factor for e-business is a skill shortage-not the ability to buy hardware and software-or lack of ideas or capital.

The Internet will become much more natural as language translation, voice recognition, and natural language computing evolve. We will begin to think of the Web as a realt-time. multi-lingual, intercom where a person can ask a question of customer service in the language they are most comfortable with.

The NGi is evolving day by day. A year from now things will be different and in five years they will be very different.

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

The web today is made up of billions of web pages. They all have nice formatting but they don't have context. A new standard called XML will enable web pages to be 'tagged' with context - things like customer number, part number, invoice date, policy number, etc. The tags will make the pages easier to find and easier to interact with.

There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist.

We don't think that any one hardware platform can meet everybody's needs and we provide multiple platforms for that reason.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.