Mitchell Baker

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

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

“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.”

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

“I grew up as an only child.”

“Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.”

“When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that.”

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

“I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!”

“Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor.”

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

“We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.”

“I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that.”

“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.”

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