Quotes by Matt Mullenweg

About Matt Mullenweg:

Matthew Charles "Matt" Mullenweg is an American online social media entrepreneur, web developer and musician living in San Francisco. He is best known for developing the free and open source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordPress Foundation. His professional blog is ma.tt, a domain hack.
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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 ...

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

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

Matt Mullenweg

Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to ...

Matt Mullenweg

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 o...

Matt Mullenweg

Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.

Matt Mullenweg

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.

Matt Mullenweg

Technology is best when it brings people together.

Matt Mullenweg

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 - jus...

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

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If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

Matt Mullenweg

If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

Matt Mullenweg

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.

Matt Mullenweg

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

Matt Mullenweg

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.

Matt Mullenweg

The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.

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For me, open source is a moral thing.

Matt Mullenweg

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

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I really enjoy computer networking.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

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Author Bio

  • NameMatt Mullenweg
  • DescriptionAmerican entrepreneur
  • BornJanuary 11, 1984
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Programmer; Computer Scientist; Musician; Blogger