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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I really enjoy computer networking. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

" 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'm pretty cheap, to be honest. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook. "

" 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? "

" You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code. "