Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

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.

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

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

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.

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

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.