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. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface. — Matt Mullenweg 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
I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
