There's no financial aspect to stats.

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

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

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

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

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.

I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks.