Tim O'Reilly > Quotes

“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.”
― Tim O'Reilly

“Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”
― Tim O'Reilly

“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.”
― Tim O'Reilly

“Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.”
― Tim O'Reilly

“anyone can download and use the code, and new projects migrate from the edges to the center as a”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“One of the key lessons of the Web 2.0 era is this: Users add value. But only a small percentage of users will go to the trouble of adding value to your application via explicit means. Therefore, Web 2.0 companies set inclusive defaults for aggregating user data and building value as a side-effect of ordinary use of the application. As noted above, they build systems that get better the more people use them.”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“We built something, we get feedback, we try to figure out what make sense out of the suggestions, and then we do something about it and then we listen some more.” That is a great description of how Internet software is typically built today, with what is now called a “build-measure-learn” cycle, in which the users of a minimally useful service teach its creators what they want from them.”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“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.”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“Amazon sells the same products as competitors such as Barnesandnoble.com, and they receive the same product descriptions, cover images, and editorial content from their vendors. But Amazon has made a science of user engagement. They have an order of magnitude more user reviews, invitations to participate in varied ways”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“Google’s service is not a server,” I wrote, “though it is delivered by a massive collection of Internet servers—nor a browser—though it is experienced by the user within the browser. Nor does its flagship search service even host the content that it enables users to find. Much like a phone call, which happens not just on the phones at either end of the call, but on the network in between, Google happens in the space between browser and search engine and destination content server, as an enabler or middleman between the user and his or her online experience.”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“views”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“Possivelmente as questões mais importantes na inteligência artificial não são a conceção de novos algoritmos, mas como garantir que os conjuntos de dados com os quais os treinamos não sejam intrinsecamente distorcidos (…). As características dos dados de treino são muito mais importantes para o resultado do que o algoritmo. A incapacidade de compreender isso é em si mesma uma distorção que aqueles que estudaram profundamente a ciência computacional anterior à aprendizagem automática terão dificuldade em ultrapassar.”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“Replacing materials with information” is a more powerful formulation than “replacing ownership with access.”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“work in progress, but shows the many ideas that radiate”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“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”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“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”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“Understanding that what used to be hard is now free and easy due to the work of others is essential to the leapfrogging progress of technology.”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“Work on stuff that matters.”
― Tim O'Reilly, What’s the Future of Work ?

“. . . one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“When the best leader leads, the people say “We did it ourselves.” —Lao-tzu”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“of those buzzword-addicted startups are definitely not Web 2.0, while some of the applications we identified as Web 2.0, like Napster and BitTorrent, are not even properly web applications!) We began trying to tease out the principles that are demonstrated in one way or another by the success stories of web 1.0 and by the most interesting of the new”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“ads and popups in favor of minimally intrusive, context-sensitive, consumer-friendly text advertising. The Web 2.0 lesson: leverage customer-self service and”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“make it public. It’s not just disagreeing to be disagreeable (pet food! online!), it’s disagreeing where you can build”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“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”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“In Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become? Michael Schrage writes: Successful innovators don’t ask customers and clients to do something different; they ask them to become someone different. . . . Successful innovators ask users to embrace—or at least tolerate—new values, new skills, new behaviors, new vocabulary, new ideas, new expectations, and new aspirations. They transform their customers.”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“•     An architecture of participation means that your users help to extend your platform. •     Low barriers to experimentation mean that the system is “hacker friendly” for maximum innovation. •     Interoperability means that one component or service can be swapped out if a better one comes along. •     “Lock-in” comes because others depend on the benefit from your services, not because you’re completely in control.”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“the new conventional wisdom. This article is an attempt”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“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.”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

“Intel Inside logo: Cars with navigation systems bear the imprint, “NavTeq Onboard.” Data is indeed the Intel Inside of these applications, a sole source component in systems whose software”
― Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

“Eu sou um capitalista bem-sucedido, mas estou cansado de ouvir que pessoas como eu criam empregos. Há apenas uma coisa que cria empregos, e são os clientes. E temos estado a tramar os trabalhadores há tanto tempo que eles não se podem dar ao luxo de ser nossos clientes. - Nick Hanauer”
― Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us