Re:Viewing 2005: CIO quotes of the year

"We are used to CEOs being accountable and going to jail and the same for CFOs. What does a CIO do that is going to get him sent to jail? If you want to be a 'CxO' then you have to play with the big boys and be prepared to go to jail."
-- JP Rangaswami, global CIO, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, speaking at silicon.com's CIO Forum

"I didn't exactly take this job for the pay. I did it because I thought it was the best job in my industry that was going and that's the point about working on the government side."
-- Ian Watmore, government CIO, in the McCue Interview

"It still looks like Microsoft wants to have its cake, eat it and charge users to watch. Where's the flexibility in the new arrangements for complex organisations like local authorities?"
-- Sean Powley, head of IS strategy, London Borough of Barnet, in CIO Jury on Microsoft's new licensing model

"It's a personal choice thing but I prefer the smaller supplier. They've got flexibility... If I say I need it now, they know I'm not joking. If I say that to BT, they are slower to react."
-- Phil Young, head of IT operations, Amtrak Express Parcels, on the role of small suppliers

"If it comes to pass that people think the public sector is seen as more innovative, I think it will only be because they have stifled the private sector with regulation."
-- Luke Mellors, CIO, the Dorchester, speaking at silicon.com's CIO Forum

"How do we play the same game that the car industry does - Volvo, Mazda, Ford, one platform. Everybody thinks they get a different car. It really ought to be as simple as that. That's where we're heading."
-- Al-Noor Ramji, CIO, BT, in the McCue Interview

"I cannot for the life of me understand boards and CEOs that don't ensure they have an IT person on the management team... Anyone who doesn't is asking for their competitors who do so to beat them."
-- Paul Coby, CIO, British Airways, speaking at silicon.com's CIO Forum

"One of my philosophies is that you have to be pragmatic - if you bring dogma or religion into this thing it will go wrong... With outsourcing, given the scale of Vodafone, even just across Europe we can gain [a lot of the scale] efficiencies internally and reap benefits from the supplier side."
-- Paul Wybrow, CIO and CTO, Vodafone, in the McCue Interview

"IT personnel are anything but underpaid when compared with other employees and we have a long history of working 'as required' to ensure that projects are delivered or problems are dealt with."
-- Frank Coyle, IT director, John Menzies Distribution, in CIO Jury

"We build to order not build to shelve which means if we can't build we have no revenue."
-- Randy Mott, former Dell CIO, in the McCue Interview