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" 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. "

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" If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful. "

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

" It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. "

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

" 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. "

" Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. "

" 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. "

" Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? "

" The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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