Mitchell Baker Quotes

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• 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.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Want, Benefits

  "Getting There: Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker". Interview with Erin Mershon, www.politico.com. October 1, 2014.

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• 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.

  Mitchell Baker

  Beautiful, Technology, Space

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Mitchell Baker

  Powerful, Most Powerful, Platforms

  "Mozilla's Mitchell Baker On Being The Alternative To Microsoft, Google And Apple". Interview with Ryan Singel, www.wired.com. May 7, 2012.

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• We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not locked in to what the original creator did. And in our case "open" also means distributed decision making.

  Mitchell Baker

  Mean, Decision, Cases

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Sticks

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Floating, Suspicious

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• 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

  People, Effort, Ships

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• 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."

  Mitchell Baker

  Girl, Dad, Children

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Mitchell Baker

  Artist, Technology, People

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• The sex symbol thing's a little bit different for me. Usually, like whenever there's a picture of me, there's always this set of things that comes out like, 'Oh my god, she's so ugly.'

  Mitchell Baker

  Sex, Different, Ugly

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.

  Mitchell Baker

  Lines, Mozilla, Projects

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• What's been most helpful to me is realizing that those times when all the heads in the room turn and look at me as if I was crazy, reinforce my own leadership capability. Because I've been in a number of those settings where I've been right. And I've been right often enough that now when it happens I don't automatically think, "Oh, my, what's wrong with me?" or "Ohhh, I must not be ready for this role," or "They know so much more than I do."

  Mitchell Baker

  Crazy, Thinking, Numbers

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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

  Mitchell Baker

  Thinking, People, Community

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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

  Mitchell Baker

  Revenge, Mean, Everyday

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• 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.

  Mitchell Baker

  Want, Mozilla, Boxes

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• But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort of read right past it. So. On the sex symbol piece, I don't get that piece. On the personality piece, that people are excited to meet a leader from Mozilla - maybe there's more about meeting me personally than I give credit for, but I find that people are excited about what Mozilla is, more than 'Oh my god, there's Mitchell, look, her hair,' whatever.

  Mitchell Baker

  Sex, Past, Hair

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura McClure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.

  Mitchell Baker

  Average, Differences, Doe

  "Questions For: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Chairman". Interview with Andrew LaVallee, blogs.wsj.com. March 4, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Broken Heart, People, Foundation

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Smart, Giving

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• We're also looking a lot at graphics and video. We've done a lot on a deep technical level to make sure that the next version of Firefox will have all sorts of new graphics capabilities. And the move from audio to video is just exploding. So those areas in particular, mobile and graphics and video, are really important to making the Web today and tomorrow as open as it can be.

  Mitchell Baker

  Moving, Important, Levels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Mitchell Baker

  Mozilla, Photograph, Theme

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

  Mitchell Baker

  Thinking, Difficult, Accustomed

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• 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

  People, Support, Mozilla

  "Mozilla Foundation Chief Mitchell Baker Replies". Interview with Robin "Roblimo" Miller, interviews.slashdot.org. March 23, 2005.

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• 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.

  Mitchell Baker

  Development, Release, Projects

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• 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

  Grateful, Differences, People

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