Tim O'Reilly quotes

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. (Tim O'Reilly)
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried. View quote
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What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. View quote
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Create more value than you Capture. View quote
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We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Healthcare is one of the areas where open data will potentially take off soonest and have the biggest impact. View quote
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Work on Stuff that Matters. View quote
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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 from large, structured efforts. (Tim O'Reilly)
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 of options and we just have to discover all of them. View quote
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The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration. View quote
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A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books. View quote
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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. View quote
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Who has the data has the power. View quote
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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. View quote
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A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to. View quote
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I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is. View quote
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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. View quote
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Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty clear to me why. It's because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service: it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don't have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else. (Tim O'Reilly)
For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy. View quote
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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. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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