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Notes

167      “Clothes don’t make the man”: Sobel, IBM, p.33.

“Pack your todays with effort”: Ibid., p. 36.

“You cannot be a success”: Ibid., p. 55.

“We have different ideas”: Ibid.

169      “They say money isn’t everything”: Ibid., p. 33.

171      “It is the men who are willing”: Ibid., p. 26.

179      “Mr. Watson is the man”: Ibid., p. 57.

180      “Our products are known”: Greenwald, “The Colossus That Works,” p. 46.

“When IBM was under the old man”: Fishman, The Computer Establishment, p. 57.

185      “The company is in the family”: Sobel, IBM, p.112.

186      “The thing that I am looking forward to”: Ibid., pp. 113-114.

“There is a reason for my success”: Fishman, The Computer Establishment, p. 51.

“Frankly I can hardly wait to begin”: Sobel, IBM, p. 115.

187      “He had a large desk”: Ibid., p. 102.

188      “If Aiken and my father “: Fishman, The Computer Establishment, p. 36.

191      “It dawned on us “: Ibid., p. 40.

“Because they could not imagine”: Hurd, “Early Computers,” p. 166.

193      “layout the department “: Wulforst, Breakthrough, p. 174.