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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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" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that. "

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

" When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt. "

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

" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality? "

" 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. "

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

" WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands. "

" If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water. "

" 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. "

" I really enjoy computer networking. "