The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.

My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.

I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.