From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

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.

Life doesn't just happen to you

I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

She's my Tallahassee lassie down in FLA.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If you're looking for the suspect in a suicide bombing, here's a clue: Look for the dead guy.