The biggest motivation is not the money but the impact.

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 write letters to you that you’ll never see.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

Everybody wants to be loved. God already loves you; all you have to do is believe and accept it.

There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!

I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.

the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.