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" For WordPress to be world class, it needs to have a sustainable model. "
Matt Mullenweg
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" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
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Open
" Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data. "
Matt Mullenweg
Web
Charts
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" 130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? "
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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. "
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" For me, open source is a moral thing. "
Matt Mullenweg
Open Source
Open
Moral
" Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse. "
Matt Mullenweg
Environment
Focus
Role
" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "
Matt Mullenweg
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Imagery
Humor
" When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting. "
Matt Mullenweg
Accountability
You
Responsibility
" I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google! "
Matt Mullenweg
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" Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation. "
Matt Mullenweg
Power
Relationship
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" While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too. "
Matt Mullenweg
People
You
Better
" When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be. "
Matt Mullenweg
Technology
Important
Writing
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
You
Back
Die
" I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET. "
Matt Mullenweg
My Time
Things
Learned
" Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced. "
Matt Mullenweg
Long
Always
New
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Different
Day
Think
" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "
Matt Mullenweg
Just
Definition
World
" Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. "
Matt Mullenweg
Salary
Money
Long Term
" The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web. "
Matt Mullenweg
Luxury
Hacking
Web
" Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today. "
Matt Mullenweg
Most
Effective
Friends
" Technology is best when it brings people together. "
Matt Mullenweg
Together
Technology
People
" Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing. "
Matt Mullenweg
Been
Always
Which
" Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired. "
Matt Mullenweg
You
Time
Sometimes
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
People
Truth
You
" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "
Matt Mullenweg
TV
Good
Feel
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Reading
People
Time
" 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
" Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. "
Matt Mullenweg
Crazy
Bubbles
Red
" 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
" 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