A biography for Matt Mullenweghasn’t been written yet.
“I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.”
“The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.”
“Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it.”
“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.”
“I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.”
“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.”
“The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.”
“Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?”
“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.”
“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?”