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TIM TEBOW I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
TIM KAINE A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet s...
TIM O'BRIEN I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.
TIM HUDSON The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It fo...
TIM HOLDEN Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketpl...
TIM ARMSTRONG The idea was to study fertilization in as many different phyla and organisms as possible, using the ...
TIM HUNT Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the dam...
TIM FERRISS People love to talk about the old bipartisanship. But it wasn't really bipartisanship. Yeah, the...
TIM GRIFFIN Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, ...
TIM BURTON I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represent...
TIM DALY We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
TIM O'REILLY Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.
TIM O'REILLY There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most p...
TIM O'REILLY The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big belie...
TIM O'REILLY If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - ev...
TIM O'REILLY I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Micros...
TIM O'REILLY A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, ...
TIM O'REILLY One of O'Reilly's advantages is that we have a network of thousands of user groups to whom w...
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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