Matt Mullenweg Quotes - Page 2

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• I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.

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  Morning, Sleep, Night

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• As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

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  Tragedy, Would Be, Horrible

  "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.

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

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  Thinking, World, Wordpress

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• 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.

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  Entrepreneur, Decision, Important

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• 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.

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  Real, Mean, Oxygen

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• If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

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  Two, Wish, Would Be

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• WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

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  Phones, Tools, Digital

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• People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.

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  Powerful, People, Trying

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• Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

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  Half, Traffic, Search Engine

  "WordPress makes a stand for open source morality". Interview with Tim Anderson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2007.

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• The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways.

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  Team, Support, Healthy

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• 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.

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  Character, Phones, People

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• It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

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  Appreciate, Entrepreneur

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

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  Past, Months, Radical

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• Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.

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  People, Genuine, Apps

  "Automattic Buys Simperium, Maker of Simplenote" by Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com. January 24, 2013.

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

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  Want, Steering, Ifs

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• For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.

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  Smart, Dumb, Designer

  "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.

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• There's no financial aspect to stats.

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  Financial, Aspect

  "[Plugin: WordPress.com Stats] Quantserve Code in Stats Javascript". WordPress forum discussion, wordpress.org. December 2010.

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• I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

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  Pages

  "Now On Wikiquotes". Personal Blog, ma.tt. January 13, 2011.

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

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  Different, Killers, Features

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• From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

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  Reading, Smartphones, Ipads

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• I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

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  Morning, Real, Book

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• The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

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  Internet Access, Cities, Ubiquity

  "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• 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.

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  Hands, Ideas, Collaboration

  "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.

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• In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.

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  Home, Two, Office

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• I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

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  Mistake, Catholic, Guilty

  "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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