Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.
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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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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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Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.
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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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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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Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time!
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Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
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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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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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Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
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The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.
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We are much better at writing code than haiku.
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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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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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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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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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My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.
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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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In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.
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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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The first 3 years the focus would be entirely on ... building a rock solid infrastructure.
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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.