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" 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. "

Matt Mullenweg

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" 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

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" Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress. "

" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "

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

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

" My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit. "

" 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. "

" Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps. "

" I really enjoy computer networking. "

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

Matt Mullenweg

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

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

Matt Mullenweg

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" The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Matt Mullenweg

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