Best quotes by Tim O'Reilly on People

Checkout quotes by Tim O'Reilly on People

  • I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
    - Tim O'Reilly
  • My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'
    - Tim O'Reilly
  • People don't care about books. They care about ideas.
    - Tim O'Reilly
  • We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.
    - Tim O'Reilly
  • Virtually every real breakthrough in technology had a bubble which burst, left a lot of people broke who'd invested in it, but also left the infrastructure for this next golden age, effectively.
    - Tim O'Reilly
  • We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.
    - Tim O'Reilly
  • Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are the really important people to invite and get them to show up as speakers or as guests. Then everybody wants to be there. If you don't know who the important people are, you shouldn't be doing a conference.
    - Tim O'Reilly
  • The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the Internet is not a statement about the Internet. It is a statement about those people and what they do, and we need to basically say that you guys are doing something unacceptable and not generalise it into a comment about 'this is what's happening to the blogosphere.'
    - Tim O'Reilly