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.

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

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.

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.