Oct 30 2007
CIO|08 Conference - Day Two Welcome from Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe
Scott Kirsner the Business & Technology Journalist of the Boston Globe gave a brief, yet humorous overview of Day One at CIO|08.
Key quotes Kirsner recapped from yesterday include:
- “The best way to predict the future is to prevent it,” was a slant on the Alan Kay’s now famous quote. Kay is the President of the Viewpoints Research Institute.
- “When the network is faster people will do more with it,” from Joseph Ferra, the Chief Wireless Officer for Fidelity Investments.
- “Leave room for failure, but learn from it,” from JP Rangaswami, the Managing Director, Service Design of the BT Group PLC.
- “I’m a constructive disruptor,” from John Boushy the CEO, President & Director of Ameristar Casinos.
- “Divine discontent: a healthy but constant leave of self-critism,” and “There is a difference between helping to not fail and helping them to succeed,” both from Kevin Turner, the COO of Microsoft.