Tim O'Reilly Quotes

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• The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

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  Past, Scary

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• We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

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  Data, Important, Entering

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• What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

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  Jobs, Technology, Opportunity

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• Who has the data has the power.

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  Data

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• Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

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  Black And White, Strange, Rich

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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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  Learning, Knowledge, Important

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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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  Keys, Effort, Innovation

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• Create more value than you capture.

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  Capture, Values

  FaceBook post by Tim O'Reilly from Dec 04, 2016

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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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  Writing, Thinking, People

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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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  Light, World, Scales

  Interview in New York produced by Publishing Point group, September 29, 2010.

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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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  Opportunity, Type, Models

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• Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

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  Being Wrong

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• 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.

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  Running, Business, Entrepreneur

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• Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

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  Moving, Revolution, Computer

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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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  Ukulele, World, Invention

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• A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

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  Book, Dialogue, Reader

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• The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

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  Artist, Obscurity, Problem

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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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  Horse, Needs, Belief

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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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  Jobs, Doe, Form

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• Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

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  Obscurity, Problem, Bigger

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• In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

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  Gains, Social Network, Social

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Wikipedia, Amazon

  "Forum: The Road Ahead". content.time.com. November 09, 2005.

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• The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

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  Opening Up, Collaboration, Possibility

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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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  Technology, People, Computer

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• Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming.
  Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months
  to develop can be produced in a matter of days.

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  Powerful, Taken, Might

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