Tim O'Reilly Quotes

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

Obama was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any government body could.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

The speed at which technology evolves affects everyone; we repeatedly hear that constant innovation is overwhelming for consumers, who struggle to keep pace.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

People are out there saying we have to devalue our properties because of the Internet, but it hasn't even come into play!

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.