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" Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. "
Matt Mullenweg
Only
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" 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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" Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt. "
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" No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog. "
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" People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users. "
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" What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients. "
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Different
" You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code. "
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" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "
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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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Always
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" 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. "
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