My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

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.

Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.

The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

Fashion breaks my heart.

Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

The only way Marc Bircham will be going to Tottenham is if he buys a f****** season ticket.

I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.