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" I'm pretty cheap, to be honest. "
Matt Mullenweg
To Be Honest
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa. "
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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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" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "
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" 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. "
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" In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC. "
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" No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog. "
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" There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one. "
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Real
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" 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. "
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Morning
" 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. "
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Software
Free
" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "
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TV
Good
Feel
" The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways. "
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Team
Service
" 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. "
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School
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" Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. "
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Salary
Money
Long Term
" 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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Responsibility
Important
Great
" 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. "
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" Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. "
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More
Search
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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 spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy. "
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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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Long
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New
" 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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" Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. "
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" 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
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Right
" 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. "
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World
Think
Story
" 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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Nothing
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