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

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.

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.

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

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

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.