Bobby Scott Quotes

The story of the next century is the transition from an industrial, resourced-based economy to a knowledge economy.

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

The economies of the future are information.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

Information has become the fundamental element of modern life.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

As the rate of technological change in computing slows, the number of jobs for IT specialists will decelerate, then actually turn down; ten years from now, the phrase information economy will sound silly.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.

You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.

Data is the new oil.

When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution.