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Matt Mullenweg Quotes
Matt Mullenweg
American
Businessman
Born:
Jan 11
,
1984
Good
People
Think
Work
World
You
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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
Work
Good
Care
Matters
Interviews
Someone
Chat
Spoken
How
Text
English
Skype
Lives
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
Me
You
Smart
Build
Software
Back
Adopt
Individual
Individual Person
Developer
Always
Dumb
Author
Person
Die
Then
Organisations
Designer
Core
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
Good
Day
Every Day
Example
Every
Our
Collaboration
Rapid
Super
Investor
Idea
Revolutionary
Hands
Interact
Hold
Which
Good Example
Things
Applying
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
Good
People
World
Secret
Dilemma
Would
Would-Be
Seemed
More
More People
Open
Blocking
Effective
Versus
Being
Spam
Against
Interesting
Less
Helped
Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.
Matt Mullenweg
Half
More
Lifeblood
Most
Blogs
Traffic
Than
Much
Engines
Search
Search Engines
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.
Matt Mullenweg
Great
You
Design
Mark
Benevolent
Web
Main
Open
Open Source
Development
Like
Doing
Source
Dictator
Model
Committee
Which
Apache
Then
Things
Two
I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.
Matt Mullenweg
Great
Responsibility
Important
Think
Independent
Web
Privilege
Role
Really
Platform
Serve
Extent
It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.
Matt Mullenweg
Good
You
Something
Something New
New
Learn
Role
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
You
Fault
Responsibility
Accountability
Pretty
Something
Point
No-One
Wrong
Goes
Interesting
Your
Level
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.
Matt Mullenweg
Time
Good
You
Law
Become
Believe
Moore
More
More And More
Host
Hosting
Idea
Over
Going
Being
Basically
Good Idea
The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.
Matt Mullenweg
World
Closed
Definition
Proprietary
Mobile
Very
Just
I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.
Matt Mullenweg
Year
Pretty
About
Through
Go
Laptops
Rough
Two
I really enjoy computer networking.
Matt Mullenweg
Enjoy
Networking
Computer
Really
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
You
Quality
High
Able
Someone
High-Quality
Idea
Know
Discern
Whether
Personally
Who
Need
I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.
Matt Mullenweg
To Be Honest
Pretty
Cheap
Honest
Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.
Matt Mullenweg
Web
Data
Charts
Powerful
Love is great, but not as a password.
Matt Mullenweg
Love
Great
Love Is
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
Today
Thanks
Our
Able
Most
Effective
Friends
Offer
Available
Shortest
If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it.
Matt Mullenweg
You
Change
Still
Blog
Use
Your
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.
Matt Mullenweg
You
Job
Focus
Bad
Plus
Attached
Had
Idea
Ideas
Most
Because
Overly
Get
Quit
Going
Your
Reason
I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.
Matt Mullenweg
Life
Hope
People
Will
Say
Characters
More
Allow
Than
Them
It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.
Matt Mullenweg
Drive
Out
Networks
Blogs
Traffic
Lot
Heck
Social
Turns
Social Networks
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
Work
You
Game
Building
Like
Well
Were
Model
Games
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
People
Own
Ran
Thousands
Adoption
Individually
Were
Lot
Who
Actually
Early
Millions
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
Matt Mullenweg
Humor
Astonishing
Ability
Seductive
Had
Dry
Educated
References
Craft
Using
Coolness
Imagery
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
Education
Me
Business
Photography
First
Community
Philip
Gave
Back
Embraced
Impact
Online
Inspired
Through
Open
Had
He
Knew
Open Source
Around
First-Person
Real
Source
Huge
Huge Impact
Person
Created
Explore
Communities
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