Tim O'Reilly Quotes

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

I have really become a huge believer in the power of open source.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.

There are certain things I am clueless about as far as the new technologies. I see these people in front of these computers all day and I don't know what they are doing - they are doing something, obviously - with Facebook, Instagram and all that. I am aware of it, but basically not in touch.

I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.

PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms

I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

A recent review of different agricultural options for the future was conducted by a panel of experts. The scientists posed the question: How are we going to feed the world when there are nine billion people on it, as there will be by 2050? And the answer they came up with was industrial agriculture won't work and genetic engineering won't work and the solution is going to be sustainable, and going to ecological kinds of farming that are based on local environmental conditions that work with local ecosystems available to develop a richer kind of farming technology.

I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

We have emphasized the importance of applied action research because it allows evidence-based policy and program development and a focus on learning. We are also committed to using a participatory approach in which local people, local program managers and providers, local researchers, women's health activists, and national decision-makers play the leading role. International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers.

You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

Technology gives big access, and you get more people who are interested in fashion. You can reach many more people now.

I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.