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

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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? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam. "

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

" I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary. "

" I don't think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks... but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational. "

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

" The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that. "

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

" 130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? "

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

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