Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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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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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 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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If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it.
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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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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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Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
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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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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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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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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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I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.
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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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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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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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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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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.