Tim O'Reilly

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

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• 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)