James Gosling Quotes

Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.

People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala

The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things.

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.