Tim O'Reilly

For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy.

Tim O'Reilly (born 6 June 1954) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly and Associates) that specializes in technology transfer through book publishing, the internet and conferences.

Sourced

• Collective intelligence. Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications... We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.
  • When asked "What innovation will most alter how we live in the next few years, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 October 2005)

• For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy.
  • Sunday Tribune magazine (25 September 2005)

• "I find, Andrew Keen's, his whole pitch, I think he was just pure and simple looking for an angle, to create some controversy and sell a book, I don't think there's any substance whatever to his rants."
  • The Truth According to the Wikipedia- IJsbrand van Veelen

• "Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that."
  • Interview in New York by Publishing Point group (29 September 2010)

External links

• O'Reilly.com bio