Tim O'Reilly Quotes

Data is great, but strategy is better

Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it.

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.

People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

Technology is giving companies superpowers to compete more intelligently and capture the data behind changing trends, expanding markets, and new opportunities.

Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

Data really powers everything that we do.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

Good data is hard to find. Hard data is good to find.

If you have a lot of data and you want to create value from that data, one of the things you might consider is building up an AI team.

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

The key to our business, it's a lot of research.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.

Big data is going to make us all healthier.

The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.