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
thinking complacent company
I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
clear database decide license nuance offer people recently speech talked technology
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.
thinking wikipedia amazon
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.
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.
past scary
The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.
believe beneath dynamics good lays life people social work
I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.
people
People don't care about books. They care about ideas.
business discipline management
It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner
jobs doe form
We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
writing thinking people
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.
thinking succeed microsoft
I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
jobs technology opportunity
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
came develop saw services
I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.
moving revolution computer
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.