Matt Mullenweg quotes

I don't have a Wikiquotes page. (Matt Mullenweg)
There's no financial aspect to stats. View quote
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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. View quote
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Usage is like oxygen for ideas. View quote
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My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software. View quote
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Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks. View quote
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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. View quote
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We are much better at writing code than haiku. View quote
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The first 3 years the focus would be entirely on [...] building a rock solid infrastructure. View quote
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I'd have to think about that a lot more and probably study a little bit more. But the easy first answer is the United States. The idea that you have a nation started with what you could term a fork. So a fork from the United Kingdom in terms of the American revolution, definitely went through some bumpy parts along the way but sort of ended up as one of the freest places in the world. Especially in regards to speech and property ownership rights and the democratic system. It isn't perfect, but is one of the best things out there. One of the things that I love is the equality of opportunity where its a meritocracy. It's not as important who you are, but it's more what you do. You can have a huge amount of opportunity and the ability to succeed regardless of what you've done before or been involved in. View quote
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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. (Matt Mullenweg)
If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water. View quote
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We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way. View quote
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For me, open source is a moral thing. View quote
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I've spent a third of my life building software based on Stallman's four freedoms, and I've been astonished by the results. WordPress wouldn't be here if it weren't for those freedoms, and it couldn't have evolved the way it has. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes. View quote
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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. View quote
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Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. View quote
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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. View quote
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One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on. (Matt Mullenweg)
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 every day is super revolutionary. View quote
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Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. View quote
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Technology is best when it brings people together. View quote
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The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. View quote
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