Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.
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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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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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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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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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Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
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The first 3 years the focus would be entirely on ... building a rock solid infrastructure.
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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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Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.
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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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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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Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
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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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I don’t have a Wikiquotes page.
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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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Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
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In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate.
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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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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'm pretty cheap, to be honest.