An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. — Tim O'Reilly Innovation Copy Share Image
A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots… — Tim O'Reilly Alone 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 Always Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push… — Tim O'Reilly Biggest mistake Copy Share Image
One of the big changes at the heart of Web 2.0 is the shift from the creation of software artifacts, which is… — Tim O'Reilly About 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 Another 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 Creative Copy Share Image
Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that. — Tim O'Reilly Customers Copy Share Image
“breakthrough in search, which quickly made it the undisputed search market leader, was PageRank, a method of using the link structure of… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the… — Tim O'Reilly Control 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 Act Copy Share Image
My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.' — Tim O'Reilly Actually Copy Share Image
I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of… — Tim O'Reilly End 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 Advantages 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 Because 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 About Copy Share Image
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried. — Tim O'Reilly Failing Copy Share Image
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to. — Tim O'Reilly Attention 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 Appetites Copy Share Image
I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments. — Tim O'Reilly Exuberant 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 Business Copy Share Image
It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner — Tim O'Reilly Business Copy Share Image
