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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Matt Mullenweg

Time

Law

Good

" Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography. "

Matt Mullenweg

Business

Back

" 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. "

" Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. "

" 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. "

" Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. "

" 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. "

" Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'? "

Matt Mullenweg

I Wish

Wish

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I really enjoy computer networking. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "