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" I really enjoy computer networking. "
Matt Mullenweg
Really
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" 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. "
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" Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography. "
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" Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. "
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" If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that. "
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" Love is great, but not as a password. "
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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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" It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new. "
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" For WordPress to be world class, it needs to have a sustainable model. "
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" I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. "
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" The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you. "
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" Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired. "
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" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "
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" 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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" You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies. "
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" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "
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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? "
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" I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. "
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" Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced. "
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" Technology is best when it brings people together. "
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" Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing. "
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