Quotes by Mitchell Baker

Mitchell Baker

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

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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.

Hair

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Sex

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.

Giving

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Smart

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.”

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I guess my other advice is that it’s really good to be comfortable among groups of men! It’s just a very common work setting and I don’t actually think about it too much, but there must be some comfort level that I’ve developed over the years.

Men

Thinking

Years

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

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Mean

Revenge

I’m excited about mobile; clearly that’s important. 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. We’re excited at the idea that we can make the same kind of contribution in the mobile space. So that’s one thing coming down the pike.

Ideas

Opposites

Space

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.

Benefits

People

Want

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.

Awkward

Ends

Helpful

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.

People

Sticks

Thinking

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Giving

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Hair

Helpful

Ideas

Important

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Internet

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Look Up

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Most Powerful

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Quotes by Mitchell Baker

Mitchell Baker

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.

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.”

I guess my other advice is that it’s really good to be comfortable among groups of men! It’s just a very common work setting and I don’t actually think about it too much, but there must be some comfort level that I’ve developed over the years.

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

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.

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.

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.

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