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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I grew up as an only child. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. "

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

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

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

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