115 Quotes by Tim O'Reilly

Não é possível gerir adequadamente um país se as elites não entendem a tecnologia da mesma forma que entendem a economia, a ideologia ou a propaganda… Uma boa governação e uma boa sociedade estão agora indissociavelmente ligadas a uma compreensão da realidade digital. - Tom Steinberg

Numa era de vigilância comercial omnipresente que é inerente à capacidade de as empresas prestarem os serviços que solicitamos, o tipo de privacidade que tínhamos no passado morreu.

Gerir uma empresa com trabalhadores que não têm horário, que se limitam a ligar uma aplicação quando querem trabalhar e que concorrem com outros trabalhadores para qualquer trabalho que esteja disponível exige um poderoso conjunto de algoritmos, para assegurar que a oferta de trabalhadores e de clientes se mantenha num equilíbrio dinâmico.

Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty clear to me why. It's because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service: it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don't have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else.

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.

My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

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

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.