Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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I'm really good at making software for publishing.
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No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.
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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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Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.
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The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.
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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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The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.
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For me, open source is a moral thing.
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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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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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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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When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
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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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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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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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We are much better at writing code than haiku.
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My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.
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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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Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
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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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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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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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If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it.
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I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.