Tim O'Reilly

Who has the data has the power.

— Tim O'Reilly

Create more value than you capture.

— Tim O'Reilly

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

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Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

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Architecture trumps licensing any time.

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Data is the next Intel Inside.

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

— Tim O'Reilly

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

— Tim O'Reilly

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

— Tim O'Reilly

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

— Tim O'Reilly

We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.

— Tim O'Reilly

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

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We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

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I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

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Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

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Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.

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Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not…

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Virtually every real breakthrough in technology had a bubble which burst, left a lot of people broke who'd invested in it, but…

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Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy…

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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…

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There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most public-spirited generation since the 1960s.…

— Tim O'Reilly

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the…

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I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue…

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“breakthrough in search, which quickly made it the undisputed search market leader, was PageRank, a method of using the link structure of…

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The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big believer in the…

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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

There are a lot of lousy conferences that pander to sponsors. They end up creating an opportunity for boring speakers who are…

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Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out…

— Tim O'Reilly

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He…

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The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the Internet is not a statement about the Internet. It is a…

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Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like…

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So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less…

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

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

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

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

— Tim O'Reilly

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

— Tim O'Reilly

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

— Tim O'Reilly

There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.

— Tim O'Reilly

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

— Tim O'Reilly