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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET. "

" What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients. "

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

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

" I really enjoy computer networking. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "

" In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world. "

" If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. "

" I'm pretty cheap, to be honest. "

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

" Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing. "

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