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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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Responsibility
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" You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are. "
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Quality
" 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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" Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress. "
Matt Mullenweg
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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
" When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt. "
Matt Mullenweg
Live
Most
Travel
" Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. "
Matt Mullenweg
Salary
Money
Long Term
" The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there. "
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Someone
Beauty
Right
" Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area. "
Matt Mullenweg
Your
Relaxation
Work
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Experience
Need
People
" My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit. "
Matt Mullenweg
New Things
Run
New
" Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data. "
Matt Mullenweg
Web
Charts
Data
" 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
" If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. "
Matt Mullenweg
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Wish
Two
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Doing
Up
Trying
" 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
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Own
Love
People
" 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
" 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
" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "
Matt Mullenweg
TV
Good
Feel
" 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. "
Matt Mullenweg
Service
School
Me
" Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa. "
Matt Mullenweg
Mean
Because
Just Because
" There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging. "
Matt Mullenweg
World
Help
Job
" Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. "
Matt Mullenweg
Traffic
More
Search
" For WordPress to be world class, it needs to have a sustainable model. "
Matt Mullenweg
Sustainable
World
Class
" Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. "
Matt Mullenweg
Server
Started
Together
" For me, open source is a moral thing. "
Matt Mullenweg
Open Source
Open
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" I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes. "
Matt Mullenweg
I Can
Guilty
Mistakes
" I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year. "
Matt Mullenweg
Through
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Go
" Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. "
Matt Mullenweg
Create
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Twitter
" I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life. "
Matt Mullenweg
Life
Will
Say