100 Quotes by Mitchell Baker

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

The goal of Firefox and Thunderbird is a new architecture which allows those products to be built separately, to remain separate products.

The formation of the Mozilla Corporation gives the Mozilla Foundation new capabilities for becoming even more successful in delivering innovative open-source, end-user products. The Mozilla Corporation is not a typical commercial entity. Rather, it is dedicated to the public benefit goal at the heart of the Mozilla project, which is to keep the Internet open and available to everyone.

Of course, it’s hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.