Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. — Matt Mullenweg 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
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
It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur. — 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 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
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
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
For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual… — Matt Mullenweg Blogger Copy Share Image
WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone. — Matt Mullenweg Digital 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… — Matt Mullenweg Collaboration Copy Share Image
We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse… — Matt Mullenweg Computer 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 Audit Copy Share Image
One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks… — Matt Mullenweg Computer Copy Share Image
I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter… — Matt Mullenweg Access 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
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
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
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 Day Copy Share Image
People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the… — Matt Mullenweg Blogger 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
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
Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF. — Matt Mullenweg Appreciation 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
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 Design 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
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
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
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 Accountability 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… — Matt Mullenweg Creativity Copy Share Image
A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
