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" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "
Matt Mullenweg
Still
Blog
Change
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" I'm really good at making software for publishing. "
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" Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data. "
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Data
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
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Amazing
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" 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
" Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'? "
Matt Mullenweg
I Wish
Wish
Go
" Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa. "
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Mean
Because
Just Because
" Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop. "
Matt Mullenweg
Think
Doing
Face
" 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
" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "
Matt Mullenweg
Time
Internet
Half
" 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
" 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
" Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired. "
Matt Mullenweg
You
Time
Sometimes
" 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
" 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
" Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress. "
Matt Mullenweg
Embodies
Lot
Really
" 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
" I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. "
Matt Mullenweg
Ideas
Out
Big
" Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. "
Matt Mullenweg
World
Think
Story
" What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients. "
Matt Mullenweg
Best
Clients
Different
" 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
" No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog. "
Matt Mullenweg
Always
Matter
Home
" 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
" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "
Matt Mullenweg
Cannot
World
Live
" 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
" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "
Matt Mullenweg
TV
Good
Feel
" 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
Will
You
Black
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes. "
Matt Mullenweg
I Can
Guilty
Mistakes