If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.

For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.

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.

The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

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