Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reillyis the founder of O'Reilly Media. He popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 June 1954
CountryIreland
bored draw guess love money people silicon technology valley weaknesses
I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.
believe beneath dynamics good lays life people social work
I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.
data important world
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
world invention make-sense
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
pay attention pay-attention
You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.
thinking ideas people
When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.
keys attention pay
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.
gains social-network social
In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.
There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.
powerful taken rubies
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.
capture values
Create more value than you capture.
gas-stations life-is gas
Life is not a tour of gas stations.
jobs technology opportunity
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
knowledge learning important
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.