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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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" The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt. "

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

" Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy. "

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

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

" Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special. "

" Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today. "

" The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "