Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how… — 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
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 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 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 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 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
I find that creative streak I think often leads in programmers to be good predictors of where culture as a whole is… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty… — 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… — Tim O'Reilly 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
We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to… — 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… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Everybody's enamored of the iPhone, the Google phone. But the applications are going to change. You know, we're going to start using… — Tim O'Reilly 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
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less… — Tim O'Reilly 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 Copy Share Image
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
There is people who make stuff with words. There is people who make stuff with programs. And I really believe that that… — 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
