Tim O'Reilly Quotes
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In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.
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Create more value than you capture.
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An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
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The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?
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The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
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Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
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I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
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There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.
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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.
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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.
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Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.
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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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Life is not a tour of gas stations.
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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.
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We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
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Data is the next Intel Inside.
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Architecture trumps licensing any time.
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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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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.
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We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
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It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner
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Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.
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What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
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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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No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.
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Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.
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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.
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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.
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A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.
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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.
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