The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there. — Matt Mullenweg Beauty Copy Share Image
If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long. — Matt Mullenweg Embarrassed Copy Share Image
Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse. — Matt Mullenweg Ability Copy Share Image
You can learn practically anything you want in the world online. — Matt Mullenweg Education Copy Share Image
Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short. — Matt Mullenweg Focus Copy Share Image
130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? — Matt Mullenweg Company Copy Share Image
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is… — Matt Mullenweg Age Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired. — Matt Mullenweg Frustrated Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach… — Matt Mullenweg Access Copy Share Image
The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep.… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. — Matt Mullenweg Blogs Copy Share Image
Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
For WordPress to be world class, it needs to have a sustainable model. — Matt Mullenweg Class Copy Share Image
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. — Matt Mullenweg Dollars Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes. — Matt Mullenweg Catholic Copy Share Image
Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs. — Matt Mullenweg Blogs Copy Share Image
