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Tim OReilly Quotes

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books Picture Quote #1

While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles Picture Quote #1

Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are the really important people to invite and get them to show up as speakers or as guests. Then everybody wants to be there. If you don’t know who the important people are, you shouldn’t be doing a conference Picture Quote #1

There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most public-spirited generation since the 1960s. There is an opportunity to harness that generation and make government service cool again Picture Quote #1

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life Picture Quote #1

You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take as much as they can for themselves. And we have a patent and copyright regime that makes sure that nothing goes back into the commons unless by an extraordinary act of generosity. This is not fertile soil for innovation Picture Quote #1

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The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I’m a big believer in the Silicon Valley religion of the power of markets. But I also believe in our obligation to give back, and to give back in the way we do business, to create more value than we capture for ourselves Picture Quote #1

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It’s no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It’s the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important Picture Quote #1

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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There are a lot of lousy conferences that pander to sponsors. They end up creating an opportunity for boring speakers who are paid shills for their companies. We still get a few of those, but we really try to police it. Think about who the audience is and what works for them, and deliver high-quality content Picture Quote #1

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said ‘Never have so many owed so much to so few,’ - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration Picture Quote #1

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started Picture Quote #1

For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done Picture Quote #1

We’re entering a new world in which data may be more important than software Picture Quote #1

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A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books (Tim OReilly Quotes) While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles. (Tim OReilly Quotes) Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are the really important people to invite and get them to show up as speakers or as guests. Then everybody wants to be there. If you don’t know who the important people are, you shouldn’t be doing a conference. (Tim OReilly Quotes) There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most public-spirited generation since the 1960s. There is an opportunity to harness that generation and make government service cool again. (Tim OReilly Quotes) I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life. (Tim OReilly Quotes) You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take as much as they can for themselves. And we have a patent and copyright regime that makes sure that nothing goes back into the commons unless by an extraordinary act of generosity. This is not fertile soil for innovation. (Tim OReilly Quotes) The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I’m a big believer in the Silicon Valley religion of the power of markets. But I also believe in our obligation to give back, and to give back in the way we do business, to create more value than we capture for ourselves. (Tim OReilly Quotes) I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term. (Tim OReilly Quotes) 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 OReilly Quotes) This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It’s no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It’s the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important. (Tim OReilly Quotes) We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love. (Tim OReilly Quotes) 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. (Tim OReilly Quotes) There are a lot of lousy conferences that pander to sponsors. They end up creating an opportunity for boring speakers who are paid shills for their companies. We still get a few of those, but we really try to police it. Think about who the audience is and what works for them, and deliver high-quality content. (Tim OReilly Quotes) A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said ‘Never have so many owed so much to so few,’ - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not. (Tim OReilly Quotes) 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. (Tim OReilly Quotes) 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 (Tim OReilly Quotes) 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 (Tim OReilly Quotes) We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does (Tim OReilly Quotes) 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 (Tim OReilly Quotes) The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration (Tim OReilly Quotes) I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is (Tim OReilly Quotes) 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 (Tim OReilly Quotes) An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started (Tim OReilly Quotes) For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy (Tim OReilly Quotes) 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 OReilly Quotes) What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done (Tim OReilly Quotes) We’re entering a new world in which data may be more important than software (Tim OReilly Quotes)