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So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'


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TIM O'REILLY So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over ...
TIM O'REILLY I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: w...
TIM O'REILLY A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coi...
TIM O'REILLY It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building...
TIM O'REILLY There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. Th...
TIM O'REILLY My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting ...
TIM O'REILLY The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaborat...
TIM O'REILLY Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to peop...
TIM O'REILLY One of the big changes at the heart of Web 2.0 is the shift from the creation of software artifacts,...
TIM O'REILLY We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content...
TIM O'REILLY This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency...
TIM O'REILLY Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovatio...
TIM O'REILLY What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
TIM O'REILLY I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, cli...
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