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

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" When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting. "

" Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few. "

" 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. "

" Love is great, but not as a password. "

" Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa. "

" I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes. "

" 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. "

" I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way. "

" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "

" Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. "

" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "

" Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired. "

" In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm really good at making software for publishing. "

" Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. "

" 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! "

" I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET. "

" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "

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

" As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software. "

" Technology is best when it brings people together. "

" 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. "

" The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready. "

" 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. "