Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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We are much better at writing code than haiku.
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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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Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
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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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Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
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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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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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Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
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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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I don’t have a Wikiquotes page.
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Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?
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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 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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Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
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The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.
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I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.
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In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate.
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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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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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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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Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.
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The first 3 years the focus would be entirely on ... building a rock solid infrastructure.
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I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.