Matt Quotes
I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.
You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.
People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.
When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.
My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.
I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.
You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.
You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.
I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.
If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.
I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit.
The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. Its a fantastic model that eliminates risk for small business owners and puts designers on equal footing.
I can't root for Jimmie Johnson to win the Nextel Cup b/c of all of his Super Bowl wins.
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.
One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.
Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.
It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.
I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.
If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.
Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.
From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.
You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.
WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.
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.
