Quotes from Mitchell Baker

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

Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.

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.

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

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.

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

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

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.

IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn't do much with it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that's not tied directly into the Windows platform.

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

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

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.

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.

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.