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.
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.
When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur.
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