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
data important world
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
world invention make-sense
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
pay attention pay-attention
You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.
thinking ideas people
When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.
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.
There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.
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.
jobs technology opportunity
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
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.