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"In the 1970s, ibm developed a marketing concept known as FUD. The acronym might sound funny, but it stands for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. This marketing strategy aroused fears, uncertainties, and doubts about buying non-IBM products. The whole point of FUD was to convince customers that bad things would happen if they didn't buy ibm products. Using FUD to sell products was very shrewd. Instead of emphasizing the merits of a product, FUD tapped into customers' fears about making the wrong purchase decision." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"Court documents reveal, for example, that a sequence of word-of-mouth communications was touched off in May 1995, when a secretary at ibm was asked to photocopy documents that included references to IBM's top-secret takeover of Lotus Development Corporation, a deal scheduled to be announced on June 5 of that year. She apparently told only her husband, a beeper salesman. On June 2, he told another person, a co-worker, who bought shares eighteen minutes later, and another friend, a computer technician, who initiated a sequence of phone calls." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"For example, I developed a complex, but extremely efficient operating system that two ibm engineers assigned to the project considered as impossible. It involved an innovative yet unproven approach that had never been attempted before. I designed, and programmed, the software myself, (and did so without any assistance from the ibm engineers). It not only worked, but was thousands of times faster than the traditional approach would have been! That was about 43 years ago, while working as a computer operations supervisor for Boeing, in Huntsville Alabama." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Aspect's experiment, which concerned two photons fired off from a single atom, showed that the measurement of one photon instantaneously affected the position of the second photon6 so that it has the same or, as ibm physicist Charles H. Bennett once put it, "opposite luck"7—that is, spin or position. The two photons continued to talk to each other and whatever happened to one was identical to, or the very opposite of, what happened to the other. Today, even the most conservative physicists accept nonlocality as a strange feature of subatomic reality." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Hal Puthoff had showed in another paper, also with Daniel Cole from ibm, that in principle there was nothing in the laws of thermodynamics to exclude the possibility of extracting energy from it.43 The other idea was to manipulate the waves of the Zero Point Field, so that they would act like a unilateral force, pushing your vehicle along. Bernie imagined that at some point in the future, you might be able to just set your zero-point transducer (wave transformer) and go." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "Later, Haisch, Rueda and Daniel Cole of ibm would publish a paper showing that the universe owes its very structure to the Zero Point Field. In their view, the vacuum causes particles to accelerate, which in turn causes them to agglutinate into concentrated energy, or what we call matters In a sense, the SHARP team had done what Einstein himself had not done.42 They had proved one of the most fundamental laws of the universe, and found an explanation for one of its greatest mysteries. The Zero Point Field had been established as the basis of a number of fundamental physical phenomena." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"The "Green Chemistry in California" report emphasized that a growing number of California industries, including ibm, Intel, and Apple, are already developing and implementing policies to reduce the use of toxic chemicals. The report further identified a critical need to encourage research by progressive industry on the science and technology of green chemistry. What must also be encouraged is an education campaign about the benefits of green chemistry, begirvning in the universities where chemists are initially trained. " - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Then ibm acquired a new chief executive officer who changed things drastically: ibm now has a more Microsoft-like organization, and I'm told that IBM's innovativeness has improved as a result. All of this suggests that we may be able to extract a general principle about group organization. If your goal is innovation and competitive ability, you don't want either excessive unity or excessive fragmentation. Instead, you want your country, industry, industrial belt, or company to be broken up into groups that compete with one another while maintaining relatively free communication—like the U.S." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Twenty years later, the company had shortened its name to ibm, and become the largest computer company in the world. Today 300,000 computers are being manufactured each day. And these are just the computers we see. Three to four times that number are produced to be embedded in cars, printers, television sets, and cameras, all of them geared to increasing our efficiency?and hence to pushing the pace of life ever faster. Global Interconnection The communications revolution has also furthered humanity's integration into a single learning system." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Then ibm acquired a new chief executive officer who changed things drastically: ibm now has a more Microsoft-like organization, and I'm told that IBM's innovativeness has improved as a result. All of this suggests that we may be able to extract a general principle about group organization. If your goal is innovation and competitive ability, you don't want either excessive unity or excessive fragmentation. Instead, you want your country, industry, industrial belt, or company to be broken up into groups that compete with one another while maintaining relatively free communication—like the U.S." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Trying to pick individual stocks, trying to predict, for example, if and when Ford Motor stock will go up or ibm stock will go up, is: 1. A smart thing to try to do; I can reasonably expect to be a success at it. 40% 2. Not a smart thing to try to do; I can't reasonably expect to be a success at it. 51% 3. No opinion. 8% [n = 131] Trying to pick mutual funds, trying to figure out which funds have experts who can themselves pick stocks that will go up, is: 1. A smart thing to try to do; I can reasonably expect to be a success at it. 50% 2." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"In recent years, ibm has shifted its focus from selling hardware to servicing large database systems, where profits are higher. An even better analogy for the hospital industry is a low-margin, high-volume business like personal computers. Dell earns only about c percent profit on each computer it sells, but it sells millions and millions of them. Similarly, hospitals want as many "bed turns," or as much "throughput," as possible in their profitable departments. The best way to accomplish this is to expand the capacity of high-margin departments to increase volume." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"IBM (International Business Machines) said, "Do you want to succeed? Then, double your failure rate. Success lies on the far side of failure." Thomas Edison tried ten thousand types of filaments for the electric light bulb before he found the one that worked. Did he look at himself as a failure? No, he remained persistent. The only guaranteed way to fail is to not make the effort. I heard a success seminar speaker once say, "Successful people fail their way to the top." Taking action is always better than doing nothing, because if you fail, at least you know what doesn't work!" - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"When I started out in private practice, it was rare that corporate managers at blue-chip companies like ibm and Procter & Gamble were laid off, but layoffs in such places are now common. Even if not laid off, managers are often shuffled between jobs and cities, and job politics often make it unwise for them to have anything more than superficial connections with colleagues. I know "corporate survivors" with some economic wherewithal who start planning with others another way to invest their money besides the stock market. Some have formed small businesses with family and friends." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"He didn't fear the big guys and had successfully challenged many powerful opponents, including companies such as AT&T, ibm, Verizon, Mercedes-Benz, Nieman Marcus, and Exxon-Mobil. I have to admit, however, that I had learned a long time ago to follow my own instincts at times. That meant I expected to give Jon the occasional virtual heart attack with my ad hoc interactions with Pfizer. I was sure he would enjoy the ride, though, and felt most thankful when he took me on as a client again." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"In recent years, ibm has shifted its focus from selling hardware to servicing large database systems, where profits are higher. An even better analogy for the hospital industry is a low-margin, high-volume business like personal computers. Dell earns only about c percent profit on each computer it sells, but it sells millions and millions of them. Similarly, hospitals want as many "bed turns," or as much "throughput," as possible in their profitable departments. The best way to accomplish this is to expand the capacity of high-margin departments to increase volume." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"As a company that self-insured its workers and practically invented how to use computers for tracking, ordering and following all sorts of items, surely ibm had a system in place, like the one that Fayerweather had set up a couple of decades earlier, to monitor the health of its workforce? Plaintiffs' lawyers were told there was no such system. Those medical forms the lawyers got—one for each employee—with punchable circles to be filled out for machine reading were never scanned at all, the company claimed. They were just made to look like they could have been read by computers." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Some of the leading manufacturers of popular brands in the United States and elsewhere in the world today are Mitsubishi, VestFrost, GE, Whirlpool, Maytag, Bosch, Miele, LG, Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, and ibm. I've looked at these companies to give you a sense of where they have been, some of their past environmental misdeeds, and where they are headed, so you can make a decision that works for your values and sensibilities. Some of them, like Maytag and Whirlpool, with poor pollution records from only a few years ago, are taking important steps to stop being toxic." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"It is not a language, it is a tool," say Jean-Paul Nerriere, a Frenchman and retired ibm executive who is trying to codify and develop Globish as a practical means for global communication. Consider it "English lite" with a limited vocabulary (about 1,500 words), basic structure, and gestures. Of course, our cultural custodians decry this trend as the debasement of a language's integrity. And their concerns have some merit. However, while linguistic fusion may be a recipe for confusion, these new patterns will also inspire new poetry, art, and creative insight in the world." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Organizations of that scale carry considerable inertia, as US Steel, Sears and ibm all discovered. Despite this inertia, the rules of risk and return still apply.'51 With smaller and younger companies keen for more of the action, pharma executives face difficult decisions. They can't force their companies free from the massive investments in science, selling capacity, plants and organization that used to yield the rare lottery-winning drug." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"The whole point of FUD was to convince customers that bad things would happen if they didn't buy ibm products. Using FUD to sell products was very shrewd. Instead of emphasizing the merits of a product, FUD tapped into customers' fears about making the wrong purchase decision. The FUD concept succeeded so well that it is now used to sell almost every imaginable product, from tooth whiteners to paper shredders to prescription drugs. Even iPods use the fear of not looking cool as a marketing technique." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"The judge ruled that the plaintiffs had not proved a causative link between each of the many different chemicals ibm used and the cancers that had occurred in each individual woman. The increased rate of breast cancer for the women who created the guts of computers became a matter of public record only after the company's legal efforts to prevent publication had been exhausted.30 By then it was too late for Fernandez. In lawsuits as in much of life, timing is everything." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Whirlpool, and ibm, has already developed machines that can detect drops in power from the grid and cycle down just enough to reduce power demands. The shift is virtually imperceptible to consumers using appliances at home, but it eases the burden on the grid enough to prevent a crash. The GridWise project could be the first concrete sign that a power revolution is at hand. Eventually, interwoven networks of machines, grids, and power sources might pay constant attention to one another, keeping the grid working and safe." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Fernandez and her colleagues filed a joint lawsuit against ibm in 1998, alleging that their cancer had resulted from their work in an unsafe environment. I agreed to serve as an expert witness for the plaintiff. Before a case makes it to a courtroom there is a process called "discovery," in which lawyers get to question opposing witnesses in order to gather pertinent information. For this case, the defendants relied on teams of lawyers whose fees for a single day exceeded the plaintiffs' annual salaries." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "Alicia Fernandez was a proud, hard-working Mexican-American immigrant who spent more than ten years in the "clean rooms" of IBM's chip factory in San Jose, California, working with more than a dozen different chemicals known to cause cancer in lab animals. She and her coworkers, all women, wore caps and gloves to keep human hair, skin flakes and perspiration from contaminating the delicate wafers onto which computer chips were etched. But their lungs got no protection from the fumes and dust that filled the room. Fernandez was thrilled to have what she was told was "a job for life ." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Today, the names Ford and Dearborn do not necessarily conjure up visions of exciting basic research, but in the late 1950s, together with a handful of other large companies like ibm, General Electric and RCA, Ford had decided to emulate Bell Labs. Bell Labs' amazing string of successes* (the transistor, the laser, etc.) had planted in the normally saturnine minds of large-company executives the idea that you could do basic research, invent new devices, change(the world, garner a few Nobel Prizes and still make a bundle in the process." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"Our good friends at the government Energy Star program have been involved with NRDC scientists and industry executives to develop standby power specs based on his work, and major manufacturers such as Sony and ibm plan to reduce standby power consumption in all products. Once again, government is seeding the market first with its vast purchasing powers, as federal agencies are now required to buy only these new power-stingy appliances. We're even making headway in Beijing." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"This belief is now getting some serious attention in the business world. ibm is only one of many companies that have begun paying their employees to stay well, rather than waiting to pay for their care when they fall sick or become hospitalized or go out on disability. Several insurance plans are doing something similar. For every dollar the company or plan spends on preventive health programs, they save about three dollars against the need for future care when employees or members fall ill." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"She makes company in-house videos and regularly chairs conferences for large companies such as British Airways, Cadbury, ibm and Metal Box, as well as government departments. 33 Wyeth claimed to have selected these women 'from among the thousands of stories received', after they asked 'women nationwide to share their personal stories about their accomplishments, how they are embracing their menopausal years and their experience with its products'. 34 Press release, May 8 2002, from PR Newswire-FirstCall. was to travel to museums, galleries and medical meetings across the country." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

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