Matt Mullenweg

Technology is best when it brings people together.

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.

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

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

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