Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.

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.

Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.

Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Where there is lasting love there is a family.

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.