Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.
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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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I'm really good at making software for publishing.
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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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It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community.
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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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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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Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
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Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.
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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 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 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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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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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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I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.
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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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Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few.
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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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Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
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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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Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.
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No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.
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Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time!