Quotes from Tim O'Reilly

be released under an open source license.) The open source dictum, "release early and release often" in fact has morphed into an even more radical position, "the perpetual beta," in which the

John Gall wrote, "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over beginning with a working simple system.

breakthrough in search, which quickly made it the undisputed search market leader, was PageRank, a method of using the link structure of the web rather than just the characteristics of

product is the collective activity of all its users; like the web itself, eBay grows organically in response to user

Quando um mercado atinge uma massa crítica tende a tornar-se autossustentável, pelo menos desde que o fornecedor do mercado se lembre de que a sua tarefa principal é dar valor aos participantes do mercado e não apenas a si próprio. Quando os mercados atingem uma determinada dimensão esquecem muitas vezes esta questão fundamental e o declínio começa a manifestar-se.

Muitas vezes, quando uma nova tecnologia é implementada pela primeira vez, ela amplifica as piores características da antiga forma de fazer negócios. Só gradualmente é que os indivíduos e as organizações percebem, através de uma rede de inovações em cascata, como aplicar a nova tecnologia de forma adequada.

Não é possível gerir adequadamente um país se as elites não entendem a tecnologia da mesma forma que entendem a economia, a ideologia ou a propaganda… Uma boa governação e uma boa sociedade estão agora indissociavelmente ligadas a uma compreensão da realidade digital. - Tom Steinberg

Numa era de vigilância comercial omnipresente que é inerente à capacidade de as empresas prestarem os serviços que solicitamos, o tipo de privacidade que tínhamos no passado morreu.

Gerir uma empresa com trabalhadores que não têm horário, que se limitam a ligar uma aplicação quando querem trabalhar e que concorrem com outros trabalhadores para qualquer trabalho que esteja disponível exige um poderoso conjunto de algoritmos, para assegurar que a oferta de trabalhadores e de clientes se mantenha num equilíbrio dinâmico.

what we believe to be the core competencies of Web 2.0 companies: Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data

example of such an application, although it hasn't yet gained wide traction. Nor will the Web 2.0 revolution be limited to PC applications. Salesforce.com demonstrates

revolution be limited to PC applications. Salesforce.com demonstrates how the web can be used to deliver software as a service, in enterprise scale applications such

Os seres humanos são uma espécie essencialmente social; o tribalismo da cultura online tóxica da atualidade pode ser um sinal de que é altura de reinventar todas as nossas instituições sociais para a era da Internet.

One of O'Reilly's advantages is that we have a network of thousands of user groups to whom we give free books, to whom we advertise our products, and they spread the word. If you don't have that database, it's hard to get the attention of the market.

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.

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.

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.

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

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.

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.

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

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