@Stephen Cronin - You're correct. I think the only thing that could put a dent into WordPress at this stage of the game is WordPress.

@donnacha - What's the use case for using a static site generator? Isn't that like going back in time with HTML pages?

@Matt - Yes, simplicity is in the eyes of the beholder. We were talking about this on Twitter about WordPress maintaining that balance of simplicity and complexity and I think plugins make a great connection between the two. You actually congratulated Owen WInkler and Khaled on their endeavor to create Habari, a competitor to WordPress. Do you have that same type of attitude towards John and Ghost?

@Ruairi Phelan - That's an interesting quote from Ian. Interesting that the guy has the same name as Automattic's Ian Stewart and talks about simplicity.

@Ken Richman - It won't be going away for a long time and you'll never see a price tag on WordPress as long as Matt is alive.

@Barbara Behan - What is it that you're trying to achieve but feel is too complex?

@Kurt - There are definitely a couple of items that Ghost showed off that had me excited. For example the split screen of actually seeing what the content will look like on the front-end without a clunky preview tab in the browser. Overall, just the fresh take on ideas was enough to get excited about. Whether Ghost delivers or not is the anticipated question.

Kurt if you think a fresh install of WordPress is complex, you should take a look at everything that's at your fingertips when you open a WordPress.com account. WordPress.com makes stand-alone WordPress seem drop dead easy.

@Jason Gooljar - I don't think you have to worry about security as much you might be. Read this article to find out why http://wpengine.com/2013/05/wordpress-core-is-secure-stop-telling-people-otherwise/