When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn’t blogging encompassed that ease of functionality? – Matt Mullenweg
If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water. – Matt Mullenweg
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
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
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? – Matt Mullenweg
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. – Matt Mullenweg
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. – Matt Mullenweg
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
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. – Matt Mullenweg
The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn’t change – it’s actually my same number from high school – is indispensable. – Matt Mullenweg
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that’s where we’re heading. – Matt Mullenweg
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. – Matt Mullenweg
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. – Matt Mullenweg
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. – Matt Mullenweg
Simplicity can have a negative impact when it’s the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF. – Matt Mullenweg
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
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. – Matt Mullenweg
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. – Matt Mullenweg
The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. – Matt Mullenweg
While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can’t win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too. – Matt Mullenweg
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