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" I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes. "
Matt Mullenweg
I Can
Guilty
Mistakes
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" Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'? "
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Wish
Go
" 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
" 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
" People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users. "
Matt Mullenweg
Start
Powerful
Try
" 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
" For me, open source is a moral thing. "
Matt Mullenweg
Open Source
Open
Moral
" I really enjoy computer networking. "
Matt Mullenweg
Really
Networking
Computer
" In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate. "
Matt Mullenweg
Fortunate
Consider
Myself
" 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'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year. "
Matt Mullenweg
Through
Year
Go
" 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
" With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam. "
Matt Mullenweg
Open
World
People
" 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
" 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
Like
Building
" 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? "
Matt Mullenweg
Employees
Working
Why
" Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? "
Matt Mullenweg
Working
Why
Stuck
" If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. "
Matt Mullenweg
Much
Wish
Two
" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "
Matt Mullenweg
Just
Definition
World
" Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area. "
Matt Mullenweg
Your
Relaxation
Work
" It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new. "
Matt Mullenweg
New
Learn
You
" Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making. "
Matt Mullenweg
Writing
Amazing
Community
" 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
" Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data. "
Matt Mullenweg
Web
Charts
Data
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Challenge
Better
Experience
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Every Day
Day
Web
" Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. "
Matt Mullenweg
Crazy
Bubbles
Red
" With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? "
Matt Mullenweg
Interesting
World
Open
" My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit. "
Matt Mullenweg
New Things
Run
New
" A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own. "
Matt Mullenweg
Own
Adoption
Early
" 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