Tim O'Reilly
The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.Collection: Past
Who has the data has the power.Collection: Data
Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.Collection: Black And White
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.Collection: Learning
Create more value than you capture.Collection: Capture
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.Collection: Writing
Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.Collection: Light
Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.Collection: Being Wrong
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.Collection: Running
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.Collection: Moving
The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.Collection: Artist
My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.Collection: Horse
Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.Collection: Obscurity
In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.Collection: Gains
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.Collection: Thinking
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.Collection: Technology
The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.Collection: Mistake
It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole ownerCollection: Business
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.Collection: Artist
The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?Collection: Successful
When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.Collection: Thinking
Life is not a tour of gas stations.Collection: Gas Stations
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.Collection: Keys
The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.Collection: Nice
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.Collection: Technology
Architecture trumps licensing any time.Collection: Architecture
You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.Collection: Attention
Data is the next Intel Inside.Collection: Data
No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.Collection: People