Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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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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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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Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
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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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If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it.
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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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Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
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Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
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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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When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
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I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.
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The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways.
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It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
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In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate.
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I don’t have a Wikiquotes page.
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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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Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.
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Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.
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Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
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I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.
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What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients.
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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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When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.
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Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?