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" 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. "

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" It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new. "

" 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. "

" We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way. "

" Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit. "

" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "

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

" It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. "

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

" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "

" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "

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

" I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. "

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

" Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging. "

" 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. "