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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 grew up as an only child. "

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Child

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Personal

Find

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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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