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
people marketing matter
No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.
technology trying fundamentals
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.
artist creative obscurity
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
business discipline management
It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner
data
Who has the data has the power.
technology people computer
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.
light world scales
Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.
thinking complacent company
I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
successful government answers
The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?
obscurity problem bigger
Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.
keys effort innovation
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.
thinking wikipedia amazon
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.
running business entrepreneur
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.
writing thinking people
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.