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.

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.

Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.

This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.