I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

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 price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it.

On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

If you can't say yes, it's no. Don't sugarcoat it. Don't talk yourself into yes just to seem like a nice guy. No one ever went broke because he or she said "NO" too often.

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.