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" 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. "

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" I really enjoy computer networking. "

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

" 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. "

" While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too. "

" There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets. "

" The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers. "

" Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few. "

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

" Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF. "

" In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world. "

" I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop. "

" For me, open source is a moral thing. "

" Technology is best when it brings people together. "

" No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog. "

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

" I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life. "

" The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web. "

" It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community. "

" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "

Matt Mullenweg

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" With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam. "

" I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes. "

" 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. "

" Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. "

" I'm pretty cheap, to be honest. "

" If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that. "

Matt Mullenweg

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