Tim O'Reilly Quotes

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs.

How do we judge whether technology is making us more productive, or just lazy and impatient?

… people who have built a business doing it the old way think it would be better if things could be more stable for longer periods of time. But you have to remember, new inventions are not inherently disruptive. Invention is only disruptive if customers say, “Hey, I like this better than the old way”.

Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking.

In a world of global competition and new technology, I think competition is coming from new places.

Technology, through automation and artificial intelligence, is definitely one of the most disruptive sources.

I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

The primary goal of IoT is to solve business problems, not to deliver a cool project or new technology. Focus on a business-relevant problem, and work with your customer to solve it.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

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.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

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

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.