Mitchell Baker

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

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.