Quotes from Matt Mullenweg

Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.

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.

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

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

Technology is best when it brings people together.

Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.

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.

Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

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.

I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.

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.

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

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.

Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.

The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.

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.

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

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

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.

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.

It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.

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.