Tim O'Reilly

(1954) Publisher United States

94 quotes in 732 categories

Tim O'Reilly’s words map the evolving tech landscape with clarity and optimism. Across 94 brief statements he explores the impact of open source, the ethics of AI, and the cultural shifts that shape tomorrow’s digital world.

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Tim O'Reilly is a publisher from the United States, best known for UNIX Power Tools.

Quick Facts About Tim O'Reilly

Born: June 6, 1954
Nationality: United States
Profession: Publisher
Notable works: UNIX Power Tools
Spouse: Christina O'Reilly

About Tim O'Reilly

Timothy O'Reilly is an Irish-American author and publisher, who is the founder of O'Reilly Media. He popularised the terms open source and Web 2.0.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

White Camel award

Quotes by Tim O'Reilly

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

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Gas

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The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

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Future

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“the new conventional wisdom. This article is an attempt”

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Conventional

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People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

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About

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Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

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Being wrong

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Architecture trumps licensing any time.

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Architecture

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Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

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Bigger

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Data is the next Intel Inside.

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Data

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The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

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Collaboration

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It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

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Business

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A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

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Attention

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I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long…

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Because

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

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Art

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A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

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Book

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“product is the collective activity of all its users; like the web itself, eBay grows organically in response to user”

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Collective

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Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

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Customers

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I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of…

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End

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

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Awful

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Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken…

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Application

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If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere…

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Business

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While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone…

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Achilles

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I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I…

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Also

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I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

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Exuberant

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

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Advertising

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I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of…

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Always

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Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup,…

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Being

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

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About

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There is people who make stuff with words. There is people who make stuff with programs. And I really believe that that…

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Absorb

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We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to…

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Applied

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Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are…

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Attendance

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The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those…

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Answers

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The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter,…

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Acknowledge

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

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Art

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Create more value than you capture.

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Capture

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Who has the data has the power.

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Data

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My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

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Belief

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What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

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Customers

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We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

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Computer

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My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

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Actually

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An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

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Innovation

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Tim O'Reilly by topic

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