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" Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea. "

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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. "

Matt Mullenweg

Work

Reading

Morning

" What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients. "

" Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'? "

Matt Mullenweg

I Wish

Wish

" If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that. "

Matt Mullenweg

Game

Building

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate. "

" Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa. "

" The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites. "

" There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired. "

" I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational. "

" You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies. "

" Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today. "

" I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output. "

" Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing. "

" 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. "

" Love is great, but not as a password. "

" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "

" 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. "

" No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog. "

" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "

Matt Mullenweg

Good

Feel

" One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that. "

Matt Mullenweg

Doing

Trying

" The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years. "

" There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. "

" 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. "

" I'm pretty cheap, to be honest. "

" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "

" 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. "