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" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "
Matt Mullenweg
Just
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World
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" Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not. "
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" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "
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" 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. "
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Team
Service
" 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. "
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Different
Day
Think
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Morning
" If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. "
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Much
Wish
Two
" It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur. "
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Work
Good
" There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one. "
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Real
About
" Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making. "
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Writing
Amazing
Community
" 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. "
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Easy
Power
People
" One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on. "
Matt Mullenweg
Nothing
Amazing
Company
" 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? "
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Interesting
World
Open
" Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area. "
Matt Mullenweg
Your
Relaxation
Work
" Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data. "
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Web
Charts
Data
" Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps. "
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Find
Rut
Location
" I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. "
Matt Mullenweg
Ideas
Out
Big
" 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. "
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Two
Copy
Web
" I'm really good at making software for publishing. "
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Software
Good
Making
" I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary. "
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Collaboration
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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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Someone
Beauty
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" 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. "
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People
Truth
You
" 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. "
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Job
Business
" 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. "
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Hands
Freedom
Service
" As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software. "
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Every Day
Day
Web
" I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility. "
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Responsibility
Important
Great
" From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff. "
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Reading
People
Time
" Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress. "
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Lot
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" For WordPress to be world class, it needs to have a sustainable model. "
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