Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.
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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 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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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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Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
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I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.
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Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
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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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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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Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
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When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.
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I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.
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Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?
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Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.
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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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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.