Matt Mullenweg

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.

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.

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

I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.

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

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.

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

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.

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

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

I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.

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.

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

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 you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.