A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all… — 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 small groups,… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
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 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 awful lot… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money. — 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 Silicon Valley… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
