Matt Mullenweg

Technology is best when it brings people together.

The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.

Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.