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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!
- Matt Mullenweg
#Black
#Google
#Matter
#Whatever
#Will
Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Something
#Sometimes
#Time
#Waste
#Your
I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Guilty
#I Can
#I Was Raised
#Mistakes
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.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Great
#Important
#Responsibility
#Serve
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.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Corner
#Day
#Doing
#Time
#Trying
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
#Better
#Challenge
#Create
#Experience
We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Community
#Free
#Great
#Harmony
#Living
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
#Important
#Open
#Software
#Technology
Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Gain
#More
#People
#Power
#Relationship
#Voice
For me, open source is a moral thing.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Me
#Moral
#Open Source
#Open
#Source
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
#Computers
#Jokes
#Old
#Story
#World
Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Half
#More
#Much
#Search
#Traffic
If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Bubble
#Ideas
#Information
#Open Source
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
#Design
#Development
#Doing
#Great
#Two
Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Good
#Long
#Money
#Motivator
#Salary
Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time!
- Matt Mullenweg
#Half
#Internet
#Myself
#Out
#Time
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Conceit
#Immunity
#Only
#Past
Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?
- Matt Mullenweg
#Go
#Meetings
#More
#Today
#Wish
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
#Best
#Focus
#Way
#Work
#World
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Believe
#Freedom
#Good
#I Am
#Truth
Technology is best when it brings people together.
- Matt Mullenweg
#Best
#People
#Technology
#Together
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