Tim O'Reilly Quotes

We're actually helping advance HTML5 in some very concrete ways, such as Edge, which is in beta.

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.

Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Flash and HTML have co-existed, and they're going to continue to co-exist.

What launched me toward Feedburner? Well, the Internet happened. When I saw Mosaic, I thought, 'I gotta do this.' I founded and sold a few companies. Feedburner was my fourth.

The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

I designed and developed an unbelievable number of applications early in my life.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

As I started college, I started to build software products that I could sell to people over the Web.

Code writers, they are my idols.

I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field.

Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

I enjoy evangelizing Java. In my heart of hearts, I'm an engineer, and what makes me happy is building something that works and having someone use it. That's cool.

Coding - everyone thinks it's a superpower. And so when you feel like, 'I've learned how to code,' and you say to your mom or the girl sitting next to you, 'I know how that app is built, I know the logic behind how that was created' - that's powerful.

It's something special being able to build a program up.

I originally studied graphic design and video production. I had wanted to be a programmer - I loved development and coding - but it turned out that I really enjoyed doing the frontend more than backend development.