Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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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 still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it.
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A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.
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From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.
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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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The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.
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As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.
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I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate.
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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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I don't think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks... but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use.
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WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands.
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The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.
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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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I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.
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If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.
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The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.
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When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
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130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
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If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.
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It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.
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I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.
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Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.
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We are much better at writing code than haiku.