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" If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else. "
Tim O'Reilly
Enough
Think
Innovation
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" 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 O'Reilly
Business
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Knowledge
" 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. "
Tim O'Reilly
People
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Me
" I find that creative streak I think often leads in programmers to be good predictors of where culture as a whole is going to go. And that is where I think I've tried over the years to in some ways use my customers as a filter or a predictor of where technology as a whole is going to go. Or where the world as a whole is going to go. "
Tim O'Reilly
World
Culture
Good
" A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work. "
Tim O'Reilly
Work
Internet
Language
" 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 O'Reilly
You
Problem
Powerful
" A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books. "
Tim O'Reilly
Dialogue
Always
Book
" Everybody's enamored of the iPhone, the Google phone. But the applications are going to change. You know, we're going to start using our phones for shopping. It's going to change the nature of advertising. "
Tim O'Reilly
Advertising
Nature
Change
" So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time, the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in. "
Tim O'Reilly
Time
Ideas
Innovation
" I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments. "
Tim O'Reilly
Learn
Time
Sing
" 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 O'Reilly
You
Doing
Important
" We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does. "
Tim O'Reilly
Rather
Than
Which
" 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 O'Reilly
Business
Value
Power
" 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 O'Reilly
Apple
Like
Position
" 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 O'Reilly
Life
Alone
Good
" I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is. "
Tim O'Reilly
Always
Most
Time
" I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 15th flavor - that's common in every new technology revolution. There are imitators who have marginal improvements. "
Tim O'Reilly
Say
New
Technology
" 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 O'Reilly
Control
Work
Support
" People don't care about books. They care about ideas. "
Tim O'Reilly
Books
About
People
" I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term. "
Tim O'Reilly
Products
Long
Because
" 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. "
Tim O'Reilly
People
Advertising
Destination
" 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. "
Tim O'Reilly
Experience
End
Fate
" Virtually every real breakthrough in technology had a bubble which burst, left a lot of people broke who'd invested in it, but also left the infrastructure for this next golden age, effectively. "
Tim O'Reilly
People
Technology
Golden
" We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. "
Tim O'Reilly
Data
World
New
" One of the big changes at the heart of Web 2.0 is the shift from the creation of software artifacts, which is what the PC revolution was about, to the creation of software services. These are services that ultimately, if they are successful, will require competencies of operation, of scale, and the like. "
Tim O'Reilly
Changes
Heart
Revolution
" Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea. "
Tim O'Reilly
Person
Second
Who
" An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. "
Tim O'Reilly
Make
Started
World
" 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. "
Tim O'Reilly
Economy
Internet
Think
" 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 O'Reilly
Think
Paths
Go
" 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. "
Tim O'Reilly
Broken
Better
People
" The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration. "
Tim O'Reilly
Amazing
Collaboration
Possibilities