As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.

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

Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks.