Tim O'Reilly Quotes

Create more value than you Capture

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.

For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy.

Work on Stuff that Matters

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

Healthcare is one of the areas where open data will potentially take off soonest and have the biggest impact.

Learning JavaScript used to mean you weren't a serious software developer. Today, not learning Javascript means the same thing.

I find, Andrew Keen's, his whole pitch, I think he was just pure and simple looking for an angle, to create some controversy and sell a book, I don't think there's any substance whatever to his rants.

If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.