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.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.