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When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn&...
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It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to f...
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I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business ...
MATT MULLENWEG

In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or c...
MATT MULLENWEG

The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that....
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I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on...
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There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is ...
MATT MULLENWEG

Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.
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Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking abo...
MATT MULLENWEG

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

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

For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build soft...
MATT MULLENWEG

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes...
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The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.
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There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that ...
MATT MULLENWEG

We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can ...
MATT MULLENWEG

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, yo...
MATT MULLENWEG

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voic...
MATT MULLENWEG

If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikip...
MATT MULLENWEG

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

Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online com...
MATT MULLENWEG

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if...
MATT MULLENWEG

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

Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the h...
MATT MULLENWEG

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

Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.
MATT MULLENWEG

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

The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When...
MATT MULLENWEG

We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, le...
MATT MULLENWEG

I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don...
MATT MULLENWEG

There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one.
MATT MULLENWEG

The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like Wor...
MATT MULLENWEG

For me, open source is a moral thing.
MATT MULLENWEG

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Un...
MATT MULLENWEG

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started...
MATT MULLENWEG

The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.
MATT MULLENWEG

Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciati...
MATT MULLENWEG

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, a...
MATT MULLENWEG

Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think...
MATT MULLENWEG

The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a ca...
MATT MULLENWEG

If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.
MATT MULLENWEG

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

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is ...
MATT MULLENWEG

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publis...
MATT MULLENWEG

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to wor...
MATT MULLENWEG

The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog...
MATT MULLENWEG

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
MATT CAMERON

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting...
MATT KEMP

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.
MATT KEMP

When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes...
MATT KEMP

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.
MATT KEMP

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with jus...
MATT KEMP

I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking...
MATT KEMP

I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community....
MATT KEMP

I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, ...
MATT KEMP

Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.
MATT KEMP

If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the pur...
MATT KEMP

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.
MATT KEMP

Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the m...
MATT HARVEY

I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?
MATT LAUER

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
MATT DAMON

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, inc...
MATT CAMERON

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switc...
MATT CAMERON

I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path f...
MATT CAMERON

Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.
MATT CAMERON

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard tim...
MATT CAMERON

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship j...
MATT CAMERON

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to ...
MATT CAMERON

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgard...
MATT CAMERON

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.
MATT CAMERON

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what'...
MATT CAMERON

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
MATT CAMERON

I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.
MATT CAMERON

I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like t...
MATT CAMERON

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't...
MATT CAMERON

I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
MATT CAMERON

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked be...
MATT CAMERON

If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.
MATT CAMERON

Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming a...
MATT CAMERON

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was f...
MATT CAMERON

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.
MATT CAMERON

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
MATT CAMERON

I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hy...
MATT CAMERON

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic...
MATT DILLON

I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,...
MATT GROENING

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
MATT BLUNT

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failur...
MATT BLUNT

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increa...
MATT BLUNT

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be le...
MATT BLUNT

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
MATT BLUNT

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent elec...
MATT BLUNT

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an...
MATT BLUNT

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good...
MATT BLUNT

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and lib...
MATT BLUNT

Public education is an investment in our future.
MATT BLUNT

With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our or...
MATT GROENING

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
MATT GROENING

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature ma...
MATT GROENING

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two hal...
MATT GROENING

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.
MATT GROENING

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.
MATT GROENING

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're ...
MATT GROENING

I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it...
MATT GROENING

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I...
MATT GROENING

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody fel...
MATT GROENING

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encou...
MATT GROENING

The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on ...
MATT GROENING

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd eve...
MATT GROENING

The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the R...
MATT GROENING

My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitio...
MATT GROENING

If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, ...
MATT GROENING

Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
MATT GROENING

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
MATT GROENING

If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
MATT BOMER

I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
MATT LAUER

A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it w...
MATT APUZZO

I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are gr...
MATT DILLON

Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly wi...
MATT BOMER

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere...
MATT DAMON

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
MATT DAMON

Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing peopl...
MATT DAMON

I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets...
MATT GONZALEZ

I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a ...
MATT KUCHAR

It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
MATT HAIG

I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i...
MATT HAIG

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business in...
MATT TAIBBI

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nost...
MATT RIDLEY

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as w...
MATT BOMER

The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. It's a fantastic model that eliminates risk fo...
MATT MICKIEWICZ

If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your ...
MATT BEVIN

'The Kids Are All Right' is amazing. The performances are insanely good. Julianne Moore is g...
MATT BOMER

Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.
MATT MARTY

I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'...
MATT KUCHAR

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed dow...
MATT HAIG

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think t...
MATT DAMON

Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in t...
MATT BELLAMY

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.
MATT LANTER

'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms -...
MATT GROENING

I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a ...
MATT GROENING

This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood ...
MATT BEVIN

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; th...
MATT HAIG

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a t...
MATT RIDLEY

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d...
MATT TAIBBI

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
MATT GROENING

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
MATT GROENING

A group of adventurers is known as a "party," and not just because they like to celebrate their succ...
MATT FORBECK

If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
MATT DAMON

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking...
MATT DILLON

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that'...
MATT DAMON

It-was a tiny mollusc that caused Walter, grandfather of the greatest biologist of the twentieth cen...
MATT RIDLEY

As a small boy Francis Crick had been haunted by a fear that by the time he grew up everything would...
MATT RIDLEY

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
MATT GROENING

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
MATT BIONDI

When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learn...
MATT GROENING

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun
MATT GROENING

I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, ...
MATT BALDWIN

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
MATT STONE

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's ni...
MATT DAMON

If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity...
MATT SMITH

I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direc...
MATT BERNINGER

'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was th...
MATT BERNINGER

I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I m...
MATT HOLLIDAY

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love ...
MATT GROENING

I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for ...
MATT PROKOP

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
MATT DRUDGE

There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of ha...
MATT GROENING

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S...
MATT TAIBBI

I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore...
MATT BEVIN

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home lear...
MATT DAMON

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black a...
MATT BOMER

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as i...
MATT DAMON

I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style a...
MATT GROENING

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in t...
MATT GROENING

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to ...
MATT STONE

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympat...
MATT DILLON

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.
MATT DAMON

It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the rig...
MATT APUZZO

Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between...
MATT GONZALEZ

If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it c...
MATT SMITH

We don't push back hard enough against the government. We could use, the country in general coul...
MATT APUZZO

Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversaria...
MATT TAIBBI

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
MATT SMITH

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can'...
MATT CAMERON

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often over...
MATT GROENING

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.
MATT BEVIN

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity...
MATT GONZALEZ

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before...
MATT MCGORRY

In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that&...
MATT BOMER

Food is a huge passion of mine, and because I want to eat whatever I want, I run every morning, and ...
MATT BARR

I tend to be shy in asking people for photos - other actors that I really like and admire.
MATT MCGORRY

I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange s...
MATT MCGORRY

It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm q...
MATT MCGORRY

I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably...
MATT MCGORRY

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it...
MATT MCGORRY

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to ...
MATT MCGORRY

My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded...
MATT MCGORRY

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I w...
MATT MCGORRY

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!

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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!

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