Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reillyis the founder of O'Reilly Media. He popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 June 1954
CountryIreland
keys attention pay
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.
gains social-network social
In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.
powerful taken rubies
Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days.
capture values
Create more value than you capture.
gas-stations life-is gas
Life is not a tour of gas stations.
knowledge learning important
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.
nice ideas visibility
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.
land apples way
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.
being-wrong
Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.
horse needs belief
My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.
architecture trump licensing
Architecture trumps licensing any time.
opening-up collaboration possibility
The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
data next data-science
Data is the next Intel Inside.
opportunity type models
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.