Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from… — 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
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep… — Matt Mullenweg 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
Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired. — 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
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're… — 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
You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code. — 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… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea… — 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
Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I don't think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks... but if you wanted to start something… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside… — 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
