John L. Flannery Quotes

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

The speed at which technology evolves affects everyone; we repeatedly hear that constant innovation is overwhelming for consumers, who struggle to keep pace.

I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.

If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.

Technology is a continuum. It's constantly getting lower-cost and easier to use, and you see that, and that's true with our company.

Digital is going to have five times the impact than the information era. Just because you led the first transition as a company or country, that doesn't mean you will lead in this one.

Obama was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any government body could.

The use of automated technology generally translates into lower costs, freeing up resources for more efficient uses, including lower prices.

There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

The creation of a digital agency is a reform that will lead to a major transformation of the Japanese economy and society.

In 1997, clients balked at self-ordering. They thought it was beneath them. But in 1998, a sea change in perception came, thanks to the rise of the Net and online trading. The concept of doing it yourself was not crazy.

I believe that IT is the way forward. Every other industry utilises IT, and I feel that fashion needs to use it more extensively to move forward.

The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.