Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“product is the collective activity of all its users; like the web itself, eBay grows organically in response to user” — 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
My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going. — Tim O'Reilly Belief Copy Share Image
I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long… — Tim O'Reilly 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
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 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
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
We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge… — 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
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt… — Tim O'Reilly Business Copy Share Image
“ads and popups in favor of minimally intrusive, context-sensitive, consumer-friendly text advertising. The Web 2.0 lesson: leverage customer-self service and” — Tim O'Reilly Marketing 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
I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for… — 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
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
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
The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter,… — 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
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
The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration. — Tim O'Reilly Collaboration Copy Share Image
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly Art Copy Share Image
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 Computer Copy Share Image
No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your… — 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
Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of… — 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 Appetites 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 Advertising 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
At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a… — 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 Business 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 Effort 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
There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities… — Tim O'Reilly Business 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
If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere… — Tim O'Reilly Business Copy Share Image
