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

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" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "

" 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 spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For me, open source is a moral thing. "

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

" If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are. "

" I'm really good at making software for publishing. "

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

" The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. "

" 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. "

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

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