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
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I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.
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I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.
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Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.
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I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.
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Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated.
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I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes from my experience as a print publisher.
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Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.
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Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.
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The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.
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Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.
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The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
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My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.
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Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.
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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.