Quotes by Mitchell Baker

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.

— Mitchell Baker

Education

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

— Mitchell Baker

Success

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.

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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.

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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.

— Mitchell Baker

Life

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

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Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Life

I grew up as an only child.

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Wisdom

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.

— Mitchell Baker

Life

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom

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

— Mitchell Baker

Life

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

— Mitchell Baker

Wisdom