Adam D'Angelo Quotes

I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.

I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.

People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.

Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.

There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.

More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.

I was incredibly impressed with HOTorNOT, because it was the first time that someone had designed a website where anyone could upload content that everyone else could view. That was a new concept because up until that point, it was always the people who owned the website who would provide the content.

I want to start a blog.

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.

Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making.

Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.

Thank you for making a web site for me. I was so surprised when I found it.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

Consumer confusion is the result of many individual problems when it comes to website design and development services, but in a nutshell, it boils down to the rapid growth of the Web and the lack of competitive measure available.

The vast majority of small business owners want nothing to do with figuring out a website. They are neck-deep in their business trying to keep it going.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

I don't understand the interweb.

I learn so much on Twitter all the time, and it would be a shame not to share that with my readers.

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

There is enough of free-of-charge software available on the Net to ease building internet websites and contact pages, as well as implement email marketing campaigns.

I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!