Tim O'Reilly
13 quotes
Biography
"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 of gas stations."
"Work on Stuff that Matters"
"Create more value than you Capture"
"Collective intelligence. Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications... We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected."
"For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy."
"I find, Andrew Keen's, his whole pitch, I think he was just pure and simple looking for an angle, to create some controversy and sell a book, I don't think there's any substance whatever to his rants."
"Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that."
"If you are not paying for the product, you are the product."
"The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration."
"We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software."
"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."
"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 you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other."
"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 company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators."