Quotes from Mitchell Baker

When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.

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

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.

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.

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

So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it, but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

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

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

The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.

We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.

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

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with.

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

I grew up as an only child.

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

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

If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your mobile phone as well.

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

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!

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

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

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing.