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" Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation. "

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

Matt Mullenweg

Technology

Website

Web

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 WordPress to be world class, it needs to have a sustainable model. "

" In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one. "

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

Matt Mullenweg

Game

Building

" I'm pretty cheap, to be honest. "

" There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. "

" There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets. "

" The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web. "

" Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone. "

Matt Mullenweg

Work

Tool

" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "

" 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. "

" I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. "

" 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. "

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

" Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop. "

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

Matt Mullenweg

Traffic

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

" I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year. "

Matt Mullenweg

Through

Year

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

" 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. "

" 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. "