Editing Tim O'Reilly (section)

== Education and early life ==
Born in [[County Cork]], Ireland, Tim O'Reilly moved to San Francisco, California with his family when he was a baby.<ref name="oracle" /> He has three brothers and three sisters.<ref name=trend>{{cite magazine|last=Levy|first=Steven|title=The Trend Spotter|url=http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/oreilly_pr.html|magazine=Wired|access-date=27 April 2014|date=October 2005}}</ref> As a teenager, encouraged by his older brother Sean, O'Reilly became a follower of George Simon, a writer and adherent of the [[general semantics]] program.<ref name="oracle" /><ref name="trend" /> Through Simon, O'Reilly became acquainted with the work of [[Alfred Korzybski]],<ref name=morozov /> which he has cited as a formative experience.<ref>{{Cite web| last = O'Reilly| first = Tim| title = Books That Have Shaped How I Think| work = O'Reilly Media| access-date = 25 April 2015| date = 7 July 2005| url = http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/articles/favebooks_0705.html| archive-date = 31 March 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150331185055/http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/articles/favebooks_0705.html| url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| last = O'Reilly| first = Tim| title = Language is a Map| work = LinkedIn Pulse| access-date = 26 April 2015| date = 29 October 2012| url = https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20121029141916-16553-language-is-a-map| archive-date = 8 March 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210308160806/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20121029141916-16553-language-is-a-map| url-status = live}}</ref>

In 1973, O'Reilly enrolled at [[Harvard College]] to study [[classics]] and graduated ''cum laude'' with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1975. During O'Reilly's first year at Harvard, George Simon died in an accident.<ref name=trend/><ref name=morozov />