Matt Mullenweg
In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one.
I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.
I really enjoy computer networking.
With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?
Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.
The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.
The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn't change - it's actually my same number from high school - is indispensable.
When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.
Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.
Love is great, but not as a password.
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.Collection: Believe
The biggest motivation is not the money but the impact.Collection: Motivation
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.Collection: Reading
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.Collection: Technology
If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.Collection: Long
Simplicity not simplistic.Collection: Simplicity
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.Collection: Oxygen
You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.Collection: World
Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.Collection: Focus
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Organization
Usage is like oxygen for ideas.Collection: Oxygen
Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks.Collection: Ifs
My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Writing
If you make the Internet, live on the internet.Collection: Entrepreneur
I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.Collection: Wine
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.Collection: Real
I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Character
If I'm on the titanic I want to be steering.Collection: Want
One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.Collection: Past
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.Collection: Entrepreneur
There's no financial aspect to stats.Collection: Financial
I don't have a Wikiquotes page.Collection: Pages
You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.Collection: Different
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.Collection: Hands