WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

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.

I stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity.

In much of your talking thinking is half murdered.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

If you make your business about helping others, you'll always have plenty of work.

To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.