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
This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to… — 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
One of O'Reilly's advantages is that we have a network of thousands of user groups to whom we give free books, to… — Tim O'Reilly 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
I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something… — 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
Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy,… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Amazon is increasingly dominating online commerce. People are starting their searches there, which of course threatens Google because it takes away some… — 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 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
