The 43+ Tim O Reilly Quotes

I Think That Companies Always Become Complacent, Over Time. Or Most Companies, That Is.

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.

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.

No Matter Your Sector, Chances Are That People Are Already Twittering About Your Products, Your Brand, Your Company Or At Least Your Industry.

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.

Data Is The Next Intel Inside.

Apple Is In A Position They've Been In A Lot Of Times Before. They're Like Moses Showing The Way To The Promised Land, But They Don't Actually Go There.

Architecture Trumps Licensing Any Time.

You Have To Pay Attention To Money, But It Shouldn't Be About The Money.

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.

The Nice Thing About Twitter Is The Architecture Of Visibility. Email Is Invisible Unless You Reach Out To Someone Directly. With Twitter, Anyone Can Follow You And This Is One Of The Big Changes That Was Really Introduced By Flickr, Was This Wonderful Idea That You Can Follow Somebody Without Their Permission. Recognizing That Relationships Are Asymmetrical, Unlike Facebook Where We Have To Acknowledge Each Other Otherwise We Can’t See Each Other.

There Are More Than 21 Ebook Channels Already. Authors Can’t Possibly Get To These And Do What They Do Best.