Mitchell Baker Quotes

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

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

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

People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

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.

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.

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

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.

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.

There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like.

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

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

Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.

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

The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.