Top 143 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Mullenweg - Page 3

Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.

If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

If I'm on the titanic I want to be steering.

You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, were thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think theres a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things theyre making.

If you make the Internet, live on the internet.

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

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 of the oxygen of the real world.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

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. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks.

There's no financial aspect to stats.

I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.

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 we interact with and hold in our hands everyday is super revolutionary.

Simplicity not simplistic.

Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.

My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.