Quotes by Tim O'Reilly

• 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.
• Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
• I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
• 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.
• The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
• A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.
• An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
• There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.
• We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
• We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
• What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
• I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.