Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.
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The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you.
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Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea.
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Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.
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Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.
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You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.
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Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.
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If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.
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Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
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If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.
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The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.
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There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets.
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I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.
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For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.
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I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.
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If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.
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The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.
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The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.
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Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
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Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.
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Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.
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Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.
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For me, open source is a moral thing.
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No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.