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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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I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.
Matt Mullenweg
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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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The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.
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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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The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.
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I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.
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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?
Matt Mullenweg
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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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Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.
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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's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.
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The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.
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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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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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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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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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I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.
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We are much better at writing code than haiku.
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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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In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one.
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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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There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.
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Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
Matt Mullenweg