Tim O'Reilly

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.