Tim O'Reilly Quotes
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Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a…
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No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.
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The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.
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Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers…
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Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.
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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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Who has the data has the power.
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The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
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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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I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
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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 businesses to improve…
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Life is not a tour of gas stations.
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Create more value than you capture.
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Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.
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There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.
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In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.
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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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When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of…
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You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.
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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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