Quotes by Tim O'Reilly

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Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates). He popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0.
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Virtually every real breakthrough in technology had a bubble which burst, left a lot of people broke who'd invested in it, but also left the infrastructure for this next golden age, effectively.

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A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for ...

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The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

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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 don't actually go there.

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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 are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to spe...

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We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

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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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One of O'Reilly's advantages is that we have a network of thousands of user groups to whom we give free books, to whom we advertise our products, and they spread the word. If you don't have that database, it's hard to get the attention of the market.

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One of the big changes at the heart of Web 2.0 is the shift from the creation of software artifacts, which is what the PC revolution was about, to the creation of software services. These are services that ultimately, if they are successful, will req...

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I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

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People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

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Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.

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Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.

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While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles.

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A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

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If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

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We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.

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We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.

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I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.

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I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

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Author Bio

  • NameTim O'Reilly
  • DescriptionIrish computer programmer
  • BornJune 6, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Publisher