Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

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.

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.

It is not easy to let someone go, even when they have said unforgivable things to you.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

Not to love is to cease to live.

Heaven help the man who fights his fear.

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.

He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.