Quotes by Mitchell Baker

"I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done."

"Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you."

"But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes."

"Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks."

"We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source."

"The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'"

"Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me."

"Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer."

"Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space."

"Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists."

"I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me."

"The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization."

"I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge."

"The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate."

"The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity."

"The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us."

"We actually have a real community of people doing useful things."

"WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko."

"I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable."

"The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen."

"I grew up as an only child."

"People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume."

"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around."

"We worked very hard to make extensions very simple."

"We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise."