Tim O'Reilly Quotes
Top 42 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.
I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.
The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.
If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.
Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.
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.
It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.
We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'
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.
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations.
Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.
I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.
No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.
We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.
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.
There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can't possibly get to these and do what they do best.
We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.