Tim O'Reilly Quotes

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

Across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change

Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.

It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along.

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.

To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

The closer you get to your ultimate customer, the more you learn about your business.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.