Matt Mullenweg

“The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.”

“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.”

“The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.”

“I don't think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks... but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use.”

“I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.”

“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.”

“Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.”

“Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.”

“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.”

“Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.”

“Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.”

“One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.”

“We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.”

“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.”

“I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.”

“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.”

“When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?”

“The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.”

“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.”

“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.”