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" I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google! "

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" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. "

" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "

" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "

" Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. "

" You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code. "

" 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

" 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. "

" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites. "

" I really enjoy computer networking. "

" 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. "

" WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone. "

Matt Mullenweg

Work

Tool

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one. "

" Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing. "

" 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. "

" 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

Building