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

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" The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing. "

" 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. "

" I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work. "

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

" A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own. "

" If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years. "

" 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. "

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