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" Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing. "
Matt Mullenweg
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" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Best
Job
Business
" 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
Information
Think
Ideas
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Job
Ideas
Focus
" Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa. "
Matt Mullenweg
Mean
Because
Just Because
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Best
Focus
You
" It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur. "
Matt Mullenweg
You
Work
Good
" We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony. "
Matt Mullenweg
Free
Living
Community
" Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. "
Matt Mullenweg
Server
Started
Together
" WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands. "
Matt Mullenweg
Hands
Freedom
Service
" Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF. "
Matt Mullenweg
Negative
Simplicity
Appreciation
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Easy
Power
People
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Work
Someone
Quality
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Business
Back
Me
" Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired. "
Matt Mullenweg
You
Time
Sometimes
" What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients. "
Matt Mullenweg
Best
Clients
Different
" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "
Matt Mullenweg
Ability
Imagery
Humor
" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "
Matt Mullenweg
Cannot
World
Live
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Example
Collaboration
Good
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Goals
Wake Up
Nice
" Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. "
Matt Mullenweg
Crazy
Bubbles
Red
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Community
You
Opportunities
" I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work. "
Matt Mullenweg
Good
Care
Work
" Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area. "
Matt Mullenweg
Your
Relaxation
Work
" There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging. "
Matt Mullenweg
World
Help
Job
" WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone. "
Matt Mullenweg
Like
Work
Tool
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Two
Copy
Web
" You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code. "
Matt Mullenweg
Code
Freedom
Restrict
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Mind
Information
Power
" Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. "
Matt Mullenweg
Create
Pretty
Twitter
" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "
Matt Mullenweg
Just
Definition
World