Mitchell Baker Quotes


"We worked very hard to make extensions very simple."
- Mitchell Baker
"We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: People, Community, Open, Testing)

"We actually have a real community of people doing useful things."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: People, Community)

"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."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Life, People, Difference, Internet)

"The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: People)

"The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Complexity, Project)

"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
(Related: People, Authority, Expertise)

"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."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Work, People, Help, Project)

"Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Technology, People, Artists)

"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Money, People)

"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
(Related: People, Open, Projects)

"I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Revenge, Waking, Want)

"But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes."
- Mitchell Baker
"The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization."
- Mitchell Baker
"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."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Health, People, Project, Support)