Top 143 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Mullenweg - Page 2

No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!

Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.

A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.

Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.

It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.

The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.

I don't think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks... but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use.

Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.

The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.

I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.

I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.

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.

Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.

Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

Love is great, but not as a password.

You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.

Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.

Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.

Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.

There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets.

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special.

Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few.

My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.

Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation.

Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.

If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.

For WordPress to be world class, it needs to have a sustainable model.

It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community.

Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time!

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you.

When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?

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.

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate.

Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.

If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it.

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

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.

In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate.

The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.

I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.

There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one.

You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

The biggest motivation is not the money but the impact.

If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.