New Opportunities Quotes by Tim O'Reilly

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups,…

— Tim O'Reilly

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

— Tim O'Reilly

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot…

— Tim O'Reilly

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is…

— Tim O'Reilly

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

— Tim O'Reilly

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

— Tim O'Reilly

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

— Tim O'Reilly

We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.

— Tim O'Reilly

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

— Tim O'Reilly

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

— Tim O'Reilly

The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big believer in the Silicon Valley…

— Tim O'Reilly

Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the…

— Tim O'Reilly

Everybody's enamored of the iPhone, the Google phone. But the applications are going to change. You know, we're going to start using our phones…

— Tim O'Reilly

Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

— Tim O'Reilly