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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Some period of time later you look up and say, That concern was right on the mark it happened exactly as I thought it would. So that's been really helpful to recognize.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.