Matt Will
Matt Will
want world online
You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.
running wall smart
I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.
ideas oxygen usage
Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
entrepreneur internet ifs
If you make the Internet, live on the internet.
years two people
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.
together months dollars
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
long ships firsts
If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.
technology people together
Technology is best when it brings people together.
ideas oxygen usage
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.
ideas work-out entrepreneur
I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.
reading successful people
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.
art good-art happens
With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.
mom mother teacher
My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.
fear smell hair
Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow