The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.

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.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

I tried to picture a bunch of guys in blue suits running around a beachside neighborhood, knocking on doors and flashing Fed creds. That should cause a stampede of illegal aliens heading south.

If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

The closer a husband and wife get to God, the closer they get to each other. The farther away they get from God, the farther they get from each other.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over; this is life or death for them.

Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.