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" When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt. "
Matt Mullenweg
Live
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" If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water. "
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" WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone. "
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" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "
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" There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur. "
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" The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers. "
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Made
" For me, open source is a moral thing. "
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" Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. "
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" Love is great, but not as a password. "
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Love Is
Great
" 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. "
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" Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop. "
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" 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. "
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Living
Community
" The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites. "
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" 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. "
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" No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog. "
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" Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. "
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" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "
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Definition
World
" Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. "
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More
Search
" I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility. "
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" Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'? "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that. "
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" It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community. "
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" I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google! "
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" 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. "
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" I'm pretty cheap, to be honest. "
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