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" 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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" 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. "

Matt Mullenweg

Free

Living

Community

" What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients. "

" 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. "

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

" The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing. "

" Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. "

Matt Mullenweg

Traffic

" 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. "

" The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers. "

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

" 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. "

" It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs. "

" It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new. "

" 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

" Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die. "

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

" Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF. "

" Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. "

" I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output. "

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

" For me, open source is a moral thing. "

" Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today. "

" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "

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

" Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse. "

" It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur. "

" No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog. "