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" If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that. "

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" The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways. "

" The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you. "

" With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? "

" Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. "

" I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output. "

" Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. "

" If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. "

" Technology is best when it brings people together. "

" There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets. "

" Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography. "

" Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? "

" I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. "

" Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea. "

" 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. "

" Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. "

" My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit. "

" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "

" Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps. "

" I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate. "

" The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers. "

" The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web. "

" I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. "

" The world cannot live on 140 characters alone. "

" I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy. "

" Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'? "

" While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too. "

" I really enjoy computer networking. "

" I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational. "

" The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there. "

" Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. "