Tim O'Reilly Quotes

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• Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they…
• I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But…
• I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me…
• A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.
• There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot…
• Data is the next Intel Inside.
• The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
• We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
• Architecture trumps licensing any time.
• My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.
• What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
• We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
• Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not…
• The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow…
• Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour…
• Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.
• Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
• You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take as much as…
• So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship,…
• Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so:…

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