Matt Mullenweg Quotes

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.

My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

If I'm DJing, and you stop me and take a picture? That's annoying.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

As a gamer, I can't think of anything more annoying for everyone concerned than playing games in a shared living room.

Like everyone, appearing smart during meetings is my top priority. Sometimes this can be difficult if you start daydreaming about your next vacation, your next nap, or bacon.

If you're ringing my doorbell eight times every three minutes and hiding behind my garbage cans, I will call the police. That is literally harassment.

I only use Tinder to have horrible conversations with people. I accidentally liked this man on there and he sent me some really horrendous things. I was like, 'I'm gonna be even more horrendous.' I was by myself, having the time of my life. Then I felt slightly sick.

Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought when someone is constantly asking me to do something? I don't think Plato would have been able to write his dialogues if he had a wife who kept bugging him to pass the pita bread.

I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted.

I always laugh at people who strive to be famous because all you do is get mithered to death by everyone.

I have no choice but to be 100-percent-focused. My two hours get blown up nearly every single day by breaking news.

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.

I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the zone because there're so many distractions that can stop you. From my bedroom to my office isn't really that far, but I have to go via the kitchen and there's so many things that can stop me and interrupt me.

Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.

You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.

He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

Email is a mind-killer. Like, I really think getting a smartphone is the worst move I ever did in being a musician because while we've just been talking my phone's vibrated like 15 times and I only get push notifications for like two apps, so either like a bunch of houses are going up for sale right now or someone's like, "Why aren't you emailing me back?" It's just hard to stay in the moment. I can understand why people go to retreats to write and stuff like that but I don't have the time.