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" I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational. "
Matt Mullenweg
Always
Got
Used
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" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "
Matt Mullenweg
Still
Blog
Change
" 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
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Morning
Sleep
Time
" I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes. "
Matt Mullenweg
I Can
Guilty
Mistakes
" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "
Matt Mullenweg
Cannot
World
Live
" 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
" Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special. "
Matt Mullenweg
Impact
Good
Opportunity
" You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code. "
Matt Mullenweg
Code
Freedom
Restrict
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Relationship
Team
Service
" 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 beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there. "
Matt Mullenweg
Someone
Beauty
Right
" 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
" I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET. "
Matt Mullenweg
My Time
Things
Learned
" It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur. "
Matt Mullenweg
You
Work
Good
" 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
" Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. "
Matt Mullenweg
Only
Millennium
Immunity
" In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate. "
Matt Mullenweg
Fortunate
Consider
Myself
" 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
" Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse. "
Matt Mullenweg
Environment
Focus
Role
" 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
" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "
Matt Mullenweg
Time
Internet
Half
" 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
" It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs. "
Matt Mullenweg
Out
Traffic
Drive
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Child
Care
School
" 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
" It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new. "
Matt Mullenweg
New
Learn
You
" 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
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Love
Moment
Company
" 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 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
Web
Power
Open