Matt Mullenweg Quotes

The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

I have really become a huge believer in the power of open source.

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

Laws are often made to express collective ethical principles, to establish a climate of opinion …

A moral issue is always more interesting than a real issue.

Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license, for example. But the GPL is what I want to program with, because unlike the BSD license it guarantees that anybody who works on the project in the future will also contribute their changes back to the community.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

Better that the nation grow poor for a cause we can honor, than grow rich for an end that is unknown.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

I think it's a flawed philosophy to believe impunity when it's inappropriate.

We want to represent the things we believe.

The blockchain is a distributed network that solves all the problems that we have of finance, but more broadly, it's like a philosophy. It's a way of life.

I hope Telegram will be able to rely on the community even more than VK since it's a non-profit project that hopefully will be able to attract people who share the idea behind it.

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.