digital transformation quotes

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.