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This quote needs a date. It is from, at the very latest, maybe 1940.

Inflation-adjusted, that's like $10 million.

Why would it be 1940 at the very latest? He ran IBM till well into the 50s. It has multiple variants, the longer ones involving a sale and a million dollars.

Woah, what was IBM up to back then?

... business machines?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine

producing technology and selling it to the third reich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Genocide. Dehomag and Watson Business Machines.

Cult of personality: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/tripp...

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