Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly  (born 6 June 1954) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly and Associates) that specializes in technology transfer through book publishing, the internet and conferences.

Quotes

 * Work on Stuff that Matters


 * 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.
 * When asked "What innovation will most alter how we live in the next few years, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 October 2005)


 * For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy.
 * Sunday Tribune magazine (25 September 2005)


 * "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."
 * The Truth According to the Wikipedia- IJsbrand van Veelen


 * "Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that."
 * Interview in New York by Publishing Point group (29 September 2010)


 * Healthcare is one of the areas where open data will potentially take off soonest and have the biggest impact.
 * "Open Source and the future of print in the age of the Social Network", Linux Voice, February 20, 2015. (WebCite archive)


 * If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.
 * This is a quote about television advertising from the 1970s. The earliest known reference is from a YouTube video. It was circulated in various forms, but the one nearest to this one was tweeted in 2010 by publisher Tim O’Reilly. (sourced from Quora)


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