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 open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.

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.

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