Matt Mullenweg Quotes
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It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.
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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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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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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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I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.
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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 have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
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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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It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
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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 first 3 years the focus would be entirely on ... building a rock solid infrastructure.
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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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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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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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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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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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I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.