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Matthew Mullenweg Citations
Matthew Mullenweg: Citations en anglais
“I don’t have a Wikiquotes page.”
Personal Blog http://ma.tt/2011/01/now-on-wikiquotes/, Now On Wikiquotes, January 2011
Steppin' off the Edge http://steppinofftheedge.com/podcast/philosophy-of-open-source/, Podcast Interview, January 2011
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas.”
Ma.tt http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/, 1.0 is the Loneliest Number, November 2010
“My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.”
Big Omaha http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2010/12/big-omaha-video-series-matt-mullenweg-robert-scoble, Conference Interview, May 2010
“Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible…even if it sucks.”
BayCHI Podcast http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20060808a#2, The first 100k users are always the hardest, August 2006
“The first 3 years the focus would be entirely on […] building a rock solid infrastructure.”
Ma.tt http://ma.tt/2009/08/starting-a-bank/, Starting a Bank, August 2009
On Steppin' off the Edge http://steppinofftheedge.com/podcast/philosophy-of-open-source/, Podcast Interview, January 2011 when asked a question, related to Web Services as Government http://ma.tt/2010/06/web-services-as-governments/ article, about what he would define as his nation state / empire from history if he had to pick one for WordPress or Automattic.
“There's no financial aspect to stats.”
Plugin: WordPress.com Stats contains Quantserve Code in Javascript http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-quantserve-code-in-stats-javascript#post-1815273, WordPress forum discussion, December 2010