Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Tim O'Reilly - Page 2

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

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?

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.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

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.

The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.

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.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

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.

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.

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.

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

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.

Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

Data is the next Intel Inside.

My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

Who has the data has the power.

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.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.