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" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "
Matt Mullenweg
Time
Internet
Half
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" I really enjoy computer networking. "
Matt Mullenweg
Really
Networking
Computer
" When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality? "
Matt Mullenweg
YouTube
You
Things
" It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new. "
Matt Mullenweg
New
Learn
You
" In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one. "
Matt Mullenweg
Goals
Wake Up
Nice
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
People
You
Better
" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "
Matt Mullenweg
Cannot
World
Live
" If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful. "
Matt Mullenweg
Information
Think
Ideas
" I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate. "
Matt Mullenweg
Different
Day
Think
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
You
Changes
City
" I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. "
Matt Mullenweg
People
Truth
You
" I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary. "
Matt Mullenweg
Example
Collaboration
Good
" The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. "
Matt Mullenweg
Challenge
Better
Experience
" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "
Matt Mullenweg
TV
Good
Feel
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Open
World
People
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Reading
People
Time
" I'm really good at making software for publishing. "
Matt Mullenweg
Software
Good
Making
" When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt. "
Matt Mullenweg
Live
Most
Travel
" 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
Game
Like
Building
" The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing. "
Matt Mullenweg
Sing
Software
Free
" No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog. "
Matt Mullenweg
Always
Matter
Home
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Technology
Important
Writing
" For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die. "
Matt Mullenweg
You
Back
Die
" Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today. "
Matt Mullenweg
Most
Effective
Friends
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
World
Think
Story
" We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony. "
Matt Mullenweg
Free
Living
Community
" Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. "
Matt Mullenweg
Create
Pretty
Twitter
" Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse. "
Matt Mullenweg
Environment
Focus
Role
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
World
College
Run
" I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output. "
Matt Mullenweg
Child
Care
School
" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "
Matt Mullenweg
Ability
Imagery
Humor