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

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.

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

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.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

What's so noble about being dead?

The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books I read will never be bestsellers yeah but come on fellas at least we made our choice.

The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it.

There's no perfect [date]. There's no agenda which has to be fulfilled. So really it's about the company and how well you get along.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

The kiss....was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman's soul. Chloe

It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.