"Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed……" — Tim O'Reilly
"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: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as much money from government as possible for doing as little as possible."
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52 Quotes by Tim O'Reilly
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Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from…
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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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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…
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I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
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Life is not a tour of gas stations.
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