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.
Interpretation
Ideas need exposure to thrive; without sharing them, they stagnate.
The quote by Matt Mullenweg emphasizes the importance of sharing ideas with the world. Just as oxygen is vital for life, sharing allows ideas to grow and evolve; without it, they risk fading away and losing their potential.
In practice
In a presentation about innovation, one might say, 'As Matt Mullenweg noted, usage is like oxygen for ideas.'
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.
We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.
If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.
I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That's why I have problems with our Pashtunwali code. We are supposed to take revenge for wrongs done to us, but where does that end? If a man in one family is killed or hurt by another man, revenge must be exacted to restore nang (honor).
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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