If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

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

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

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

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?

If you make the Internet, live on the internet.

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

. . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . .

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.