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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam. "

" Technology is best when it brings people together. "

" 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. "

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

" I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational. "

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

" 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 really good at making software for publishing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF. "

" In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate. "

" When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop. "

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

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

" In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one. "

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

" The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access. "

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