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

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

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.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.