Quotes from Tim O'Reilly

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

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

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.

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

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

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

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

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.

If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don't make any money.

The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the Internet is not a statement about the Internet. It is a statement about those people and what they do, and we need to basically say that you guys are doing something unacceptable and not generalise it into a comment about 'this is what's happening to the blogosphere.'

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. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.

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.

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated.

O Facebook e o Google dizem-nos que os seus objetivos são louváveis: criar uma melhor experiência para o utilizador. Mas são também empresas, e a criação de uma melhor experiência para o utilizador está estritamente ligada a outra função de aptidão: ganhar dinheiro.

results, continuously and dynamically respond to hundreds of millions of asynchronous user queries, simultaneously matching them with context-appropriate advertisements. It's no accident that Google's system administration, networking, and load balancing techniques are perhaps even more closely guarded secrets than their search

other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. For everything

Might it not be the case that in a world where routine cognitive tasks are commoditized by artificial intelligence, it is the human touch that will become more valuable, the source of competitive advantage?

Confundir o que é bom para os mercados financeiros com o que é bom para os empregos, salários e para a vida das pessoas é um erro fatal em muitas escolhas económicas realizadas por líderes empresariais, legisladores e políticos.