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" Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. "

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" Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area. "

" Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not. "

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

" It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new. "

" When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality? "

" The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready. "

" When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be. "

" I'm really good at making software for publishing. "

" I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy. "

" Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special. "

" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "

" Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? "

" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "

" Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. "

" Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. "

" One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that. "

" Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps. "

" If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water. "

" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "

" If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. "

" Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook. "

" 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. "

" The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there. "

" Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. "

" There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one. "

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" The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access. "