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" I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life. "
Matt Mullenweg
Life
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" I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility. "
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" The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn't change - it's actually my same number from high school - is indispensable. "
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Service
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Me
" Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. "
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Money
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" WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands. "
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Freedom
Service
" I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational. "
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Got
Used
" Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress. "
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Lot
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" No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog. "
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Always
Matter
Home
" The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years. "
Matt Mullenweg
Web
Power
Open
" It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new. "
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New
Learn
You
" Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. "
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Only
Millennium
Immunity
" Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. "
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Crazy
Bubbles
Red
" 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
" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "
Matt Mullenweg
Cannot
World
Live
" The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers. "
Matt Mullenweg
Buying
Infrastructure
Made
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Work
Reading
Morning
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Impact
Good
Opportunity
" A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own. "
Matt Mullenweg
Own
Adoption
Early
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Writing
Amazing
Community
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Mind
Information
Power
" Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area. "
Matt Mullenweg
Your
Relaxation
Work
" 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? "
Matt Mullenweg
Interesting
World
Open
" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "
Matt Mullenweg
TV
Good
Feel
" WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone. "
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Like
Work
Tool
" If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad. "
Matt Mullenweg
Job
Ideas
Focus
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Human
Someone
You
" If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion. "
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Best
Job
Business
" There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. "
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Development
Design
You
" Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. "
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Server
Started
Together
" 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
" If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. "
Matt Mullenweg
Much
Wish
Two