Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly Art Copy Share Image
It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner — Tim O'Reilly Business Copy Share Image
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to. — Tim O'Reilly Attention Copy Share Image
I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration. — Tim O'Reilly Collaboration Copy Share Image
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going. — Tim O'Reilly Belief Copy Share Image
“product is the collective activity of all its users; like the web itself, eBay grows organically in response to user” — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the… — Tim O'Reilly Control Copy Share Image
I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue… — Tim O'Reilly Business Copy Share Image
There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most public-spirited generation since the 1960s.… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“breakthrough in search, which quickly made it the undisputed search market leader, was PageRank, a method of using the link structure of… — Tim O'Reilly Breakthrough Copy Share Image
Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 15th flavor -… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Virtually every real breakthrough in technology had a bubble which burst, left a lot of people broke who'd invested in it, but… — Tim O'Reilly Age Copy Share Image
The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the Internet is not a statement about the Internet. It is a… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big believer in the… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
There are a lot of lousy conferences that pander to sponsors. They end up creating an opportunity for boring speakers who are… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup,… — Tim O'Reilly Being Copy Share Image
I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots… — Tim O'Reilly Alone Copy Share Image
Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work… — Tim O'Reilly America Copy Share Image
I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone… — Tim O'Reilly Achilles Copy Share Image
If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere… — Tim O'Reilly Business Copy Share Image
I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from… — Tim O'Reilly Effort Copy Share Image
“Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not… — Tim O'Reilly Business Copy Share Image
There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities… — Tim O'Reilly Business Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push… — Tim O'Reilly Biggest mistake Copy Share Image
