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.
Interpretation
Ideas need exposure to thrive; without sharing them, they stagnate.
The quote by Matt Mullenweg emphasizes the importance of sharing ideas with the world. Just as oxygen is vital for life, sharing allows ideas to grow and evolve; without it, they risk fading away and losing their potential.
In practice
In a presentation about innovation, one might say, 'As Matt Mullenweg noted, usage is like oxygen for ideas.'
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.
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.
...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.
Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.
Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.
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