Quotes from Matt Mullenweg

It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.

For me, open source is a moral thing.

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.

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.

If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients.

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.

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.

In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you.

I really enjoy computer networking.

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.

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!

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 don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

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?

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.

Timothy Ferriss