Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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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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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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Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
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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 be in a role when you can learn something new.
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Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
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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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I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.
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I don’t have a Wikiquotes page.
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The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.
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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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Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
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Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
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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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The first 3 years the focus would be entirely on ... building a rock solid infrastructure.
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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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Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.
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In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate.
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Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?
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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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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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I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.
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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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Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.