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

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.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.

The biggest motivation is not the money but the impact.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.

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