Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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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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No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.
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Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.
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The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.
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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 beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.
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WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.
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For me, open source is a moral thing.
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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 like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.
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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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My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.
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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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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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We are much better at writing code than haiku.
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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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When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
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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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I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.
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Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
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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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If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it.
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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.